Re: xml-i18n and a new feature

[Cyrille Chepelov <chepelov calixo net>]

Le lun, oct 22, 2001, à 11:58:31 +0200, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz a écrit:

> this is my first posting to the list. i've been following it for a few
> days, though, and been using dia on a daily basis during the last
> month for UML modelling. one feature that i miss is a window
> displaying a tree of currently open diagrams as nodes, with the
> objects contained in the diagrams as their children, to ease
> navigation and easy cut-and-paste of objects among open diagrams. i've
> been having a look at the source files (which, by the way, are, imho,
> very well written!)  and think it would not be very hard to implement
> this tree thing (by adding a few hook functions to the Diagram
> interface for creating/adding/removing diagrams (and Objects), for
> instance). i've got some experience with gtk+, and i think i can code
> it myself: would someone be interested? or is this a feature already
> in the works? if not, any advise on how to do that, following the
> current architecture?  should i modify the latest release source or
> the CVS files?

This feature sounds interesting... Please hack at will ! Unfortunately,
given the current apparently very limited time historic coders of dia can
spend on it nowadays, things are very quiet on the CVS side. I don't even
know whether my snapshot generator even generates correct tarballs, and if
not, what's broken in them :-(

I guess the general policy applies: show us unidiffs that rock and they get
in :-) 

> on a related note, i've downloaded the CVS tree, and tried to compile
> it in a Debian testing distro (with libtools upgraded to 1.4), but i
> don't have xml-i18n-toolize. it seems that there was, not long ago, a
> package in debian (xml-i18n-tools) containing it, but it has
> disappeared from the testing and unstable distributions (or, at least,
> i'm not able to find it!). any suggestion about where can i obtain it?

you want to have a look at package  "intltools". xml-i18n-tools has been
renamed, I gather because of a problem with previous versions not having
versioned autoconf macros (and a very long and complicated name).

One *very* cool thing would be to transition dia to intltools ; of course
without using the XML_I18N_* macros but the INTLTOOLS_* newer ones (and
removing the .stamp hacks I had once to do in the sheets/ directory).

        -- Cyrille

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