Re: Dia's user interface

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Tom Sorensen wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dia-list-admin gnome org [mailto:dia-list-admin gnome org]On
> > Behalf Of Lars Clausen
> >
> > Unless you exit Dia by brutal means (leaving X, typing Ctrl-C in a
> > terminal), Dia will ask before closing an unsaved diagram.  So you won't
> > accidentally lose your work just because you don't notice the modified
> > marker.
>
> I suspect the reason is because she wants to run an external program
> against the Dia generated file. So while an autosave feature would help
> against the various issues listed, it still won't help in that case.

I see, I hadn't thought of that case.

Makes me want to add a plugin that will allow a shell command to be
executed on a diagram, implicitly saving it etc.  But nah.

-Lars

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