On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Cyrille Chepelov (home) wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The enclosed patch adds the ability to describe sheets using XML files ;
> It looks into ~/.dia/sheets first, then $(pkgdatadir)/sheets.
>
> Currently, it doesn't disable the current routines, though the goal is to
> remove them, and make the toolbox (besides the arrow, zoom and scroll
> tools) a special case of a sheet.
Looks pretty good. The one thing I'm a little hessitant about is if we
really need different sheet syntax for shapes and non-shape objects? The
user shouldn't need to be aware of the difference.
> Issues :
> 1) If user provides foo.sheet and dia too, should the user's sheet
> totally replace dia's sheet, or should the user's tools be simply placed
> first ?
You mean two sheets with the same filename or same name? I think the user
specified sheet should just be placed first. You might miss new features
recently incroduced otherwise.
> 2) We have now two/three namespaces. Perhaps their ID should be
> moved to dia HQ's home page ?
I think so. The old one for shapes could be recognized too though, but be
decapricated.
/ Alex
