Re: XFig vs. dia 5:1

[ml <ml knorke in-berlin de>]

Hi,

thanks for your explanations.

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:08:09AM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
> No, Dia does not have hatches.  We're more geared towards structured
> diagrams than vector art.  It is a good suggestion, though.

I see hatches mostly essential for technical diagrams, not
as a part of vector art.  Ideally, the hatches should be
very flexible (colour, line style, angle, distance between
lines, ...).

> 0.88.1 was quite unstable.  0.90 is much better.

Yes, dia becomes definitely more and more stable.
Unfortunately, I had data losses on dia crashes.  How about
an "auto-save" feature like in Emacs?

> > functions are already there (but I did find them), or maybe
> > one could port good ol' XFig to GTK+? :-)
>
> That's been done: <URL:http://k332.feld.cvut.cz/~lemming/projects/gtkfig.html>

This project seems to be not very active (last version 0.7.x
of 1999) and more a rewrite than a port.  Anyway, I didn't
mean this too serious, and of course, the "XFig vs. dia"
wasn't meant as a fight, more as a productive competition.

Cheers!