On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Alex isn't working on Dia anymore, he's gone on to deeper things (GTK). > >I'm CC:ing Alan Horkan, though, as he's our shape maintainer and he may > >have other ideas for what you could do.
> >> I work for an ISP in Massachhusetts, us. > >> I started using dia about two weeks ago to draw a few > >> network diagrams(linux version). I origianlly downloaded dia a > >> long time ago and played with it for a few hours, but now I'm > >> actually using it. It's excellent. I'm attempting to train > >> someone on how to setup wans and the like with t1's, broadband, > >> static ips et all. My Q is: is there anything I migfht be able to help > >> with on the Dia project? I'm not a coder, just a network geek, > >> so I can't help code anything. I see on the website that > >> there no examples listed. I'd be happy to send you some network > >> examples in .dia and .png format. If you can think of anything > >> I might be able to help with, let me know. > I have never read the documentation, I just wing it. I'll read over the docos though > and see where they can use some updating. I would quite like to get the Dia Manual converted from SGML DocBook to XML DocBook. > >Also, as you are network users, we'd like to hear what could be improved in > >the network shapes. We have a release coming up soon, after that we plan > >to work on the user interface for a while. Ideas on what could be done are > >most welcome. > > > I'll in the doco somewhere I assume find how to make shapes. look at exisiting examples, as much as possible draw the shape in Dia then export as .shape read this http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html specifically http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html#AddingShapes and http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/custom-shapes Dia has been written about in several linux books, i think i found a new source not mentioned on the website yet but i need to read it more carefully as it might just be a duplicate of exisiting material. http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/custom-shapes While trying to find out what SADT stands for i found this: http://datamining.csiro.au/debian/book/SADT.html which may or not be a HTML version of this chapter from The Gnome Desktop, which is mentioned on the Dia website. http://www.togaware.com/linuxbook/dia.html > There are certain netowrk devices that are often used (specifically > cisco routers, watchguard firewall boxes and the like). An idea I had I think that some one (possibly Ian Redfern) made up a Cisco sheet. I should hunt through the archives for it and file a bug report about getting it added to the distribution. > for my own use was to make shapes specifically for specific devices that > I throw into diagrams over and over. This would save time labelling them > after they've been inserted. I have previously read on the list about people who keep a template file and then they copy and paste from there. > I only use it for network diagrams but I could make examples for > dias otehr uses too as time permits. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ 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
