Re: Help out with Dia (was Re: Minor dia build error?)

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > And I thought of an import/export filter that should be fairly easy to
> > make: Kivio files.  It will take some XML knowledge, but that is fairly
> > easy.
>
> I used the query
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=dia
> and checked the whole list thoroughly.
> but i dont seem to be able to find a bugzilla report for Kivio import
> export support, so I filed this bug report
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86268
>
> There does not seem to be much documentation of the file format but the
> XML is fairly readable and the source code (at least for the older
> versions is GPL).

XFig2sml <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/xfig2sml/> will make Kivio
stencils from XFig sources.  Maybe it will help.  Can't find much else
(it's not even listed with the other KOffice formats!)

> I cut and pasted the query lars provided and it strangely only shows me
> New bugs even though i can see it should show me New and Unconfirmed
> (maybe my bugzilla profile has some state informaton from a previous
> query ro something) but i recommend you also look at NEEDINFO bugs, if
> you are searching for things to do.

These were all enhancement requests, which are rarely marked Unconfirmed.

-Lars

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