On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Alan Horkan wrote: > >> > Isometric map symbols :-) > > Ill definately think about it. > >> > BTW, speaking of names, there should be (if there is not already) > > grudgingly i guess you are right, i will probably decide some time on a > right way and do up a shedload of patches. > The convention for Menu Items is 'First Letter Up' and i think that it > would be wise to follow that convention, and as much as possible avoid > pronouns.
First Letter Up? But Not Following The Book Title Capitalization System, Where A Few Words Are Not Capitalized? >> Good point. Some guidelines for object creation would be useful. Alan, >> have you started anything in that direction? > > I vaguely intend to edit most of the current black and white shapes to > use 'foreground' and 'backround' so that users will be allowed and able > to easily change the colours. That would be a lovely thing to get done. > I should probably add a section to the > manual about how to create new shapes (save as .shape) and addtional > things you can do to tweak the XML by hand. The first thing i need to do > for the manual is to write a good description of UML, and then for every > other sheet. I also have about 20 PNG i spent a whole afternoon cutting > and cropping that i should add to the documentation. I'm finding Dia itself is decent at making icons, if you give it a little planning. Especially if you're doing the colored background, it's easy to place a colored square and then build on top of that. Export as 22x22 PNG and it's ready to go. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ 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
