Re: Dia Shapes

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

On 10 Dec 2002, Lars Clausen wrote:

> Date: 10 Dec 2002 16:12:42 -0600
> From: Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>
> Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
> To: dia-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Dia Shapes
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > I did mention before about prettying up Dia a bit and AFAIK the CVS
> > version has nice little icons in the menus and there are certainly loads
> > of icons that could be coloured,
>
> The icons in the menus are due to Gtk 2.0.
>
> > I figure it wont be hard to allow users to override preset colours in a
> > shape.
>
> As long as the preset colours are black and white, no.  But what do you use
> to override red?  Foreground or background or something else?

users should be allowed make any changes the like rather than having to
edit the XML.  i would have to think about how best for the GUI do this
for a shape with many colours.

perhaps i am missing a trick and there is already a way to specify in a
shape file to define what colours you want for foreground and background?

<!-- psuedo shape descrition ...

something like
foregroudn=red
background=green

rect color=foreground
circle color=background

-->

which would create a shape that was red and green.

i am too tired and increasingly hungry,
expect a more coherent discussion from me at about 4 GMT tomorrow
Wednesday
ill be logged on to irc.gnome.org #dia as well in case that helps.

> > I resigned/gave notice, so in just under a fortnight ill have the
> > time to put money where mouth is and get coding again.
>
> Really?  What'll you be doing afterwards, then (apart from hacking Dia)?

I have a few places i am going to apply to (Dell Compaq, some of the local
ISPs) will probably end up doing tech support or something, nothing
fantastic but a job nonetheless and one that has me in front of a computer
and does not leave me so damned tired at the end of the day.

> We can already do that, for settable colours, by grouping them.  Next
> release, we want that to be doable for all selected objects without having
> to group them first.

Nice

Later
Alan