Re: Dia-0.95

[christian ridderstrom gmail com]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Lars Clausen wrote:

> tim bogie gvds com au sagde:
> > -- Timothy Bogie
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > > From: Octavio Alvarez Piza <alvarezp alvarezp ods org>
> > > Sent: Monday, 30 January 2006 6:38 PM
> > > To: lembark wrkhors com, discussions about usage and development of dia
> > > <dia-list gnome org>
> > > Subject: Re: Dia-0.95
> > >
> > > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:27:06 -0500
> > > Steven Lembark <lembark wrkhors com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > You'll have to find some way of managing interem bugfix releases if
> > > > non-developers are going to keep using dia. It is a wonderful tool,
> > > > but I cannot wait a year for brickwall bugs to get fixed. Even if
> > > > there are new minor bugs left in the minor releases, releases with
> > > the
> > > > major bugs need to be out more often.
> > >
> > > Amen. Release early and often. CVS = some bugs fixed, other bugs
> > > introduced. A big no-no for formal deployment, specially for random
> > > users and always-rushing admins for which compiling it under Windows is
> > > a PITA.
> > >
> > > This is past, though. Right now, it compiled on my Slackware 10.2 and
> > > it
> > > compiled and ran. I'll try something with it.
> > >
> > > Octavio.
> >
> > Geez.  Don't you think all you whingers are being a bit heavy on Lars and
> > Hans.  My point of view is that they have created this off their own sweat
> > and deserve some kudos and respect for what they have built.  Dia is a
> > fantastic product, even for something that hasn't hit version 1.0 yet.
>
> Thank you!  It's somewhat discouraging to be fighting obnoxious bugs for
> months on end, only to be told "Why weren't you done sooner?".  While I
> agree that getting Dia out earlier would have been wonderful, these
> comments would have been a bit more interesting last summer.
>
> > I
> > certainly wish I had the ability to add to the code.  But alas, I'm just a
> > mere network engineer.  So you could do two things instead of
> > complaining:
> >
> > 1.  Actively contribute to the code releases, or
>
> Aha, but here is where anybody, regardless of coding ability, can help us:
>  We still have three (3) open critical bugs.  They're open mainly because
> they are difficult to reproduce, so even if we think we have fixed them,
> we have difficulty testing the fix.  We're talking bugs #163574, 129022
> and  123225.  Repeatable reproductions of these under either 0.94 or the
> newest CVS would be valuable information.

It's probably old news, but I was able to reproduce this one

        http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163574

using 0.94 and following the steps in the report, i.e.

1. start dia
2. add a digitizing board from the network group
3. add a network cloud from the network group, with the text 'Stuff', and 
   click somewhere in the diagram so no objects are highlighted anymore
4. right click in the diagram window, and go to View and check 
   'AntiAliased'
5. right click in the diagram window, go to 'File/Print Diagram'.  Select 
   file and accept the default of 'output.ps' and click Ok
6. click the 'close window' button in the title bar of the diagram window
7. click 'Discard changes'

I don't have the CVS version so I can't test that. If you (Lars etc) can't 
reproduce it CVS, what about closing the bug for now?

Here's links to the other two bugs Lars mentioned:

        http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129022
        http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123225

/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr