Re: tabbed interface

["Patrick Hallinan" <patrick j hallinan gmail com>]

On 5/5/07, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:

On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 01:48 -0500, Patrick Hallinan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have made some progress toward a tabbed interface for dia.  It's
> optional, controlled by a "use integrated ui" option in the
> preferences dialog.  I don't know how to send a patch.  I've attached
> a diff of my changes synch'd to the latest svn checkin.
>
> It's in a half broken state.  Maybe mostly broken.  I think the next
> thing that I'm going to do is to synch the tab label to the diagram
> filename.  I just want to make sure that there is interest in this.
> I'm excited to do this if it is really going to be picked up by the
> project.  I'm also happy to accept criticism/advice for the code.
> BTW: I don't know how else to show the code unless I zip the files
> (which I'd be happy to do).

I've committed your patch to SVN, I think it looks nice.  I think we can
take out the "use menubar" option when this is complete; I think there
is significant overlap between those who use menubar at the top and
those who want the integrated UI.  Getting the zoom box and snap widgets
back would be nice:)

Sweet.

Things are progressing.  I have some things working on the toolbar and I'm integrating the display menus.  I have the snap items sitting on the toolbar but they don't do anything at the moment.  I need to make them and zoom tie into a diagram that becomes active.  The close buttons for the notebook pages appear to work but I think it's kludgy.  I don't really know if everything is being cleaned up properly.  I was thinking that I might send a patch out tomorrow but I want to a few things cleanup up and I might not have time.


Pat.