Lars, Thanks for taking the time to answer. Apologies for sounding so negative - it is however very encouraging that you have often answered that my points are addressed in more recent development, or are just documentation being out of date. I would like to see a new build soon and then I can try out these and other issues and I'll then feel a bit more confident that I'm making suggestions for improvements in a program that I know is the most recent (or almost so).
I may be able to help with documentation but as I am working behind a firewall which doesn't appear to let CVS traffic through I my have problems. Appreciatively, Richard. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lars Ræder Clausen > Sent: 04 February 2009 14:36 > To: discussions about usage and development of dia > Subject: Re: Dia on Windows (0.96.1) old build. Issues may be fixed ? > > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 14:03 +0000, Kerry, Richard wrote: > > > > I've recently installed Dia, having seen a diagram in the Bugzilla > > documentation similar to what I wanted to do. > > I seem to have found a handful of problems, some of them are issues > > where the help-file doesn't appear to be correct. I don't know > > whether I'm misunderstanding something or the help is not > the correct > > build for the program. > > > > 1. > > I'd like to change a drawing from compressed to > uncompressed XML. The > > default is compressed but I want to version control my document so > > prefer it to be uncompressed xml. I needed to do this by > saving with > > a new name, renaming, deleting to get this to happen. Should I have > > been able to do this just by clearing the "Compress saved files" > > option and resaving ? > > Yes. > > > 2. > > Right-click on the canvas. Nothing happens. The manual > says do this > > to get Select Connected/Transitive Objects menu to appear but it > > doesn't. That's only available from the Select menu. > > The manual is old enough that it doesn't know about the > current default > style of menus, only the older Gimp-style menus. You can > toggle between > these in the preferences. > > > 3. > > When I open existing diagram file, I prefer canvas to be > same size it > > was for last edit, . > > That is not yet stored in the save file, though there's a > suggestion up > for it. Also other edit-relevant settings (zoom level, position in > diagram etc) should be stored there. > > > 3a. Subsidiary windows (layers, diagram tree) open very small first > > time. Though on a subsequent run they do pick up the size they were > > before. > > They probably open with the minimum size that fits their > (few) elements. > > > 4. > > Can't change a line to a PolyLine. I've drawn my diagram > with Lines. > > On occasions I've found that I want to route one around > another item. > > In this case I've needed to create a new PolyLine for this. > Would it > > be possible to remove the distinction, at least internally, > and allow > > corners to be added to Lines. > > The thought has definitely crossed my mind, several times > even. Problem > is that the Line object has a few extra features that would have to be > implemented on the PolyLine as well. Could be fun to integrate the > ZigZagLine, but that's more tricky. > > > 5. > > Editing Text. The Delete key deletes the object not the > character and > > is thus different from most other Windows programs. Also ctrl+arrow > > doesn't jump by word. I've seen an entry in the Archives indicating > > that some change have recently been done in this area and also a > > discussion about a new Installer build, the first since 2007; > > hopefully this will come soon. > > This is fixed in the 0.97 release, which Hans and compatriots are hard > at work at polishing off. > > > 6. > > Can I render to png (say) from the command line ? Yes I can. > > Actually the Help files say nothing specifically about the command > > line except for a handful of references in passing. I have > found that > > dia --help has a bit more to say but it should be in the manual > > somewhere. And not even -?, --help was mentioned in the current > > manual. > > That would be great to have added to the manual. Could you do that? > > > 7. > > From a plain install I always get a Warning dialog at startup - > > "Several object types were named Cisco - CDDI-FDDI" etc. > Surely this > > shouldn't be giving warnings without my having done anything ? > > Fixed in 0.97. > > > 8. > > The File menu on a canvas includes Open but doesn't include recently > > used items but the one on the toolbox does. > > That is... kinda inconsistent. > > > I suspect several of these are due to the very old Windows > build so I > > hope a new build will be available soon. > > Apologies if all these have been addressed recently - I look forward > > to trying a new build but if there isn't one soon I may move to a > > different package. > > Yeah, it's been taking quite a while to get the new one out. I hope a > beta release comes along soon. > > -Lars > > > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
