Re: New Roadmap?

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On May 13, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Fred Morcos wrote:

> I looked around and found an interesting topic: Auto-layouting. It
> seems like it's only a discussion so far, has any work been done in
> this field for Dia? Would it be welcome even if not based on Dot (from
> Graphviz)?

Do you mean autolayout of all objects or of individual lines?  If the  
latter, I would love to see a better version (and I wrote the current  
one, so I should know:). My suggestion would be to look at the current  
one until you understand it, then replace it totally with something  
better.

If the former, it would also be very welcome - it would be better to  
not have a dependency on Graphviz. I was actually having some ideas in  
that direction just this morning, since I ended up with a huge DB  
diagram with no layout and had to do it all by hand yesterday.

Feel free to mail me or the list with any questions you may have about  
the currently implemented autorouting and for feedback on ideas.

-Lars