Ross,
What would dia-convert do?
Is command-line functionality, or (say) Corba scripting, or just file
format conversions what you're after? I'm just trying to understand your
point.
It's my opinion FWIW that Dia is a graphical editor of intelligent
diagrams, and should focus there. Given that -- for some reason I always
think of "Dia" as "she" -- she already saves her diagrams in XML, I think
format conversion tools should exist outside Dia. Perl among others
happily parses XML already, and Dia has no need for knowledge of other file
formats.
If file conversion tools were written as filters (in the spirit of a2ps)
and Dia could read from stdin, alien formats could be handled as simply as:
% dia-convert alien_file | dia &
It seems to me that external file-converters (a2dia, dia2a) would be more
powerful and flexible, not to mention faster to create and use, than
built-in export/import functionality. It's not even clear -- again, given
the XML standard -- that the native Dia file I/O routines would be all that
helpful to the author of a file-conversion utility.
Just my 2 cents, of course,
--jkl
> [REQUEST] A non-GUI batch mode - no splash screen, no nothing. Ideally
> - a tiny
> dia (possibly called dia-convert) that does not link to GNOME, GTK etc
> for use on servers.
