Re: About Dia shapes

[Asbjørn A. Fellinghaug <asbjorn fellinghaug com>]

Mathieu Bridon (bochecha):
> Hi,
>
> Dia is a great tool, however it misses one thing: nice icons.
>
> I recently got in touch with a french artist, Jean Cartier, who created
> very nice icons for Dia. Here they are:
> http://www.jcartier.net/spip.php?article39
>
> He totally agrees on having them directly included in Dia, he released
> them under the "Public Domain" license, however, as he lacks time to
> engagne the discussions, he asked me to take care of it.

I agree with the observation that the present icons in Dia is a little
ugly, so I think it is a good enhancement to provide a new set of icons.
Personally I loved the icons you linked to here.

> So, are you interested in having those icons shipped with Dia ? What
> should I (or more specifically Jean) do to have them included in Dia ?
>
> Regards,
>
> PS: I sent this message already but wasn't a member of the list, so it
> couldn't be delivered. I subscribed to the list now.

An described approach towards creating sheets and shapes in Dia can be
found here: http://dia-installer.de/howto/create_shape/

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Asbjørn A. Fellinghaug
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