Re: Is there some shape repository for dia ?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 06 Aug 2002, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On mar, 2002-08-06 at 21:45, Lars Clausen wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
>> > Le Tue, Aug 06, 2002, à 02:32:43PM -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:
>> > 
>> >> That sounds like a good compromise.  But there's just something sexy
>> >> about easy downloading of shape packages:)
>> > 
>> > Huh... APT is sexy ;-)
>> 
>> True, but then you'll have to restart Dia.  A dialog that knows about
>> repositories (maybe through a metaserver) and can give previews would be
>> really sexy.  Not something to spend our time on right now, though.
> 
> 
> Why not "watching" the shape repository and load newcomers dynamically ?
> WindowMaker can watch the changes in its config file. Why not Dia
> watching for changes in its shape directory.

I suppose it could do that.  But then we have a synchronization problem --
we wouldn't want to load half-way written files.

-Lars

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