On 4 Sep 2003, Alan Horkan wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Steffen Macke wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 07:03:41 +0300 >> From: Steffen Macke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: 0.92-pre1 >> >> A windows installer of 0.92-pre1 is available from >> >> http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net > > Thank you. Prebuilt binaries are always a huge help, particularly on > Windows. > > The first sheets, which is the Assorted Shapes does not load at startup. > The space where you would normally see the shapes is blank, but if you > select the sheet again it loads correctly. > > I realise adding this option to the installer could be quite difficult > but I would really like it if the installer allowed me to choose not to > install the localisations/translations. It would save me manually > deleting them, and they take up 4 MB (Dia 0.90 only took up about 6MB in > total). With previous releases I was able to delete all the translation > files I dont need without causing any problems this time it does cause > problems which I will try and look into later. > > The Dynamic grid works well and is a significant improvement, but it > makes Snap to Grid a bit more confusing.
Any idea for how Snap to Grid could be less confusing with Dynamic Grid? > If you use the Document Menubar the Input Methods menu is blank (i > mentioned this before but neglected to file a bug report). > > I tried switching Input Methods to Amharic but it failed > (dia.exe:4294205835): Gtk-WARNING **: Loading IM context type 'am_et' > failed > The previous time I tried it Dia crashed. > Strange little detail I had not noticed before, the Input Methods menu is > missing its tearoff (also missing in 0.91). Yeah, that whole thing is broken in menu-bar-mode. Since it's going to disappear entirely in the next version, I'm not going to spend days looking for a reason. > samples/EML-demo.dia should be removed, as the shapes it needs were > removed True. > I am reminded of lots of other things including: > should the diagram tree just show the current document? I don't see why it should. > wouldn't it be nice to be able to set the default number of sides/points > on a Polygon/Polyline/Beziergon/Bezier/ZigZagline? How would they be laid out by default, then? > why doesn't the Polyline have connection points on it, and why not > replace the Standard Line with single "PolyLine"? There's actually little reason to have a seperate Line when we have PolyLine, that's true. A Box is still useful in the precense of a Polygon because of the extra restrictions. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim 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
