Re: a standard for diagram document format

["Sameer Sahasrabuddhe" <sameerds gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:

>> But what dia really needs is to leave the old multiwindows (gimp like)
>> interface which makes it really ugly and nonstandard and make the main
>> widget embeddable for other tools like Abiword, OOo, IDEs, Visual
>> programming languages, electronic circuits, etc.
>
> A single-window interface is part of the next release. As for making it
> embeddable, is there any up-to-date way to do that in Gnome?

What? Seriously, a single-window interface? No, please. The
multi-window way is really convenient ... you can think of each window
as a different "plate" or "easel" and the main object palette as just
that ... a palette. Changing diagrams is just simply "alt-tab" handled
by the window manager, instead of some internal Dia shortcut!

Will there at least be a choice to stick with the old interface? And
why the change anyway? Gimp seems to be going places with multiple
windows ... why not Dia too!

Sameer.
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