Re: Dia Shapes

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > I did mention before about prettying up Dia a bit and AFAIK the CVS
> version has nice little icons in the menus and there are certainly loads
> of icons that could be coloured,

The icons in the menus are due to Gtk 2.0.

> I figure it wont be hard to allow users to override preset colours in a
> shape.

As long as the preset colours are black and white, no.  But what do you use
to override red?  Foreground or background or something else?

> I resigned/gave notice, so in just under a fortnight ill have the
> time to put money where mouth is and get coding again.

Really?  What'll you be doing afterwards, then (apart from hacking Dia)?

> If Dia does become much more colouful users will still probably want a
> way to easily change the (colour) properties of objects across a whole
> diagram and for example set all the lines to black and all the fill
> colour to white to produce a clear printout or change the line and fill
> colours to make a diagram look as if it came from rational rose (darkish
> red lines, light yellow fill).

We can already do that, for settable colours, by grouping them.  Next
release, we want that to be doable for all selected objects without having
to group them first.

-Lars

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