Re: Add mockup toolset?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 18.05.2009 16:11, Herbert Grunwald wrote:
> Hi, Dia is excellent, but a feature that could be easily added and
> would boost Dia usage a lot is to add a mockup toolset. 
Thanks, but aren't you a bit exaggerating the use of mockups?

> Lately, Balsamiq Mockups have gained attention,
Not by me, but maybe your post ist meant to be advertizing that
commercial product ;) At least it has made me look at
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/examples

Getting that "hand-drawn" look into Dia would be quite a job I think,
if the rest "could be easily added" solely depends if the job is just
to define some special shapes.
Or if it - as I expect - also involves some special adaptions to the 
workflow. I'm doing most of my mockups still by hand on a sheet of paper,
and have no idea what additional shapes would be useful for allowing to do 
mockups with Dia.

> but their product is less
> flexible than Dia, so there's an excellent opportunity for gaining
> some general acceptance. 
How would some very specific feature "gain general acceptance"?

If I would need to do mockups with predefined shapes my first stop would be 
a dedicated resource editor - depending on the toolkit. For Gtk+ it would 
be Glade as suggested by http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343395

> AFAICS it's also rather easy to add the
> required bits to Dia.
Feel free to provide a patch. Or maybe some more detailed requirements 
analysis first ;)

        Hans

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