Re: Autolayout plug-in

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 08.10.2008 16:50, Fred Morcos wrote:
> Sorry for the very late reply, I have been finalizing my thesis and
> moving back to my country. I would like to restart the discussion
> about automatic layout, gearing things towards inclusion into Dia as
> an offered feature.
>
> You would prefer it as a plugin (I presume)?
Yes.
> If it is a plugin, where should the GUI code go (if any)?
In the plug-in. I did the necessary changes to your code some time ago, but 
that may be lost in some email. I have now added the plug-in to bugzilla.
See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556026

> Any requirements for the GUI (following a certain HIG)?
You may want to read http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/. But 
please keep in mind that Dia should rely only on GUI available with vanilla 
Gtk+ for portability easons.
> How can I generate the API docs for plugins? --with-hardbooks didn't work.
There is no dedicated plug-in API documentation. Basically you can use 
everything available from lib/* and nothing from app/*

> Any requirements about memory usage and processing? Or which one
> should be prefered over the other?
As mentioned before: I prefer a clean, easy to understand implementation 
over any optimization.

Have fun,
        Hans

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