This has been discussed before http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100169
i have a habit of mentioning it every few weeks. Firstly sensible organisation of the files on disk would be a good idea, and the catagories suggested in the first post of this thread seemed senisble enough. The way i see it the user interface should allow you to create many and varied sheets for their own personal use that it would not necessarily make sense even to inlcude in Dia. i was pondering how you would show all the elispe/round shapes, you could get into all sorts of advanaced ways to handle,search,organise, the objects, but i am going a bit offtopic. I did not like how Visio used menus, it makes it very difficult to select shapes from multiple sheets easily or get a quick view of all of the sheets and shapes available. Treeview has some drawbacks too but i think it is much better. You want multiple sheets at the same time? Well ages and ages and ages ago i asked if the sheets menu could have a GTK tearaway widget added and i think it was Lars Clausen generously added it very quickly. Only there has not been a realase in ages. In the CVS version you can tear off the sheet and have multiple sheets shown at once (AFAIK, insert disclaimer here in case i have misunderstood exactly how and what can be torn away). > 1. diagrams could be nested, and > 2. sheets were diagrams. interesting. having looked at Visio 2000 the widget where the sheets are displayed is a fairly standard file manager widget (probably got the name totally wrong but anyway) you can show them as icons, as icons withouth text, as small icons. I was thinking it would be really nice if Dia could grab and reuse some sort of standard widget (reusable => more easily maintained). To keep Dia like it is the widget would need to support or have added a "Buttonised list" which will be familiar to some of you especially those who have used Mac OS 9. I dont recally if i filed a bug report suggesting this, i doubt i have because it was a rather vague notion, and i was worried that some one might overzealously throw something non-portable together using Bonobo and break/neglect the windows version. I think i discussed it with Lars offlist. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ PS other ideas not so random ideas soon! i have been adding a few more essentials shapes (car, tree, took me hours literally) to my Isometric 3-D Directional Map shapes so it is almost in a state that i could release it, at least dump the files on a webserver so you can see. Still need to do nice icons for it, and add a few more shapes (dont want anyone treading on my toes later, trying to add shapes that are not as meticoulously produced as mine. I spent hours, i think i am probably being a bit too finickey). Not sure about what to call the sheet 'Directonal Map' is kinda crap, and I dont want to call it 3D as that would push my Assorted sheet from being shown first ;) PPS Release Date? Is a pre christmas release still gonna happern (should probably start a whole new thread to ask this). How about a pre-release for 0.91, need to motivate myself to finish off or at least tidy up lots of bits and pieces and get them in soon. Later Alan :) > > > structuring/display mechanism to manage them such as: > > > - grouping sheets by category (and maybe subcategory) > > > eg. network, electrical engineering, software engineering,... > > > - associating a subset of working sheet to each open diagram. > If that's too ambitious, surely it's possible to put shapes in arbitrary > directories and adapt someone's File manager tree view to the purpose? keep it portable! > It would be good if users could organize their own sheets, and it would be > especially good if they didn't have to use Dia or configure Dia to do so. patches that make the Dia XML importer more forgiving of mistakes in your markup are welcome. > The problem is not very different from managing a mail store in an MUA. > In fact, if there were a standard XML folder DTD, I'd suggest that as a > starting point. > > --jkl > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html > Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
