Re: ChangeLog Demon and 'Standard - Outline' (was Re: Dia ChangeLog reportfor 2007-11-06 13:01:39 UTC (Tue 06 Nov))

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 18:09 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:
> On 10.11.2007 16:50, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > That's true.  Sheesh, now I'll have to look at what it'd take to allow
> > normal text to rotate:)
> The main problem I see is to get it in all the renderers. A lot of effort
> for a small feature at least I did not miss that much. And now with the
> above even less.

I do miss it frequently, but I should not start more features now, but
rather concentrate on getting text edit right.  Undo is still broken.

> And if we are planning to break some renderers anyway we may want to go the
> full nine yards and add rotation on the object level. At least with cairo
> rendering (ps, pdf, gdk pixmap, print, bitmap, svg) the drawing part should
> not be very difficult, see:
> http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Transformations.html

I'm not really worried about the renderers so much as the
infrastructure, autorouting and autogap in particular.

> And while at it we can add a lot of fill variations as well (:
> http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Patterns.html

Fill variations could be cool and wouldn't break anything.

-Lars