Re: First offered sheet

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote:
>> > I think the old ordering maked sense.
>> 
>> I think it makes sense to have UML first, but if you dont use UML you
>> might disagree.
>> Perhaps if dia remembered the sheet that was last used and switched
>> to
>> that on startup?
> 
>> > But perhaps  the name of last used sheet could be saved in the
>> diagram
>> > file ....
> 
> The environment should be saved into a file, and even associated
> to the document.
> 
> Think about a UML mode, 
> or even an UML static structure mode, an UML use case mode and so forth
> each mode presents you with the tools for the job in a fast and easy to
> use fashion. 
> 
> I think that one of the problems that I have with dia is the missing
> concept of an application. Call me a windows user, but I dont like
> fighting with all these windows. I just want them to go away and get
> out of my way when i minimize the window!!!

You ... Windows user, you! :)
Gtk probably has some way to mark windows as belonging together, and thus
iconifying together.  Haven't looked into that yet.

> I guess I would like to declare a document to be of a certain type,
> and when we are able to associate structured meta-data to a diagram
> this will be very important... Think about using a DTD/SCHEMA/Datatype
> to define a document, this will allow you to insert structured
> properties into some diagram elements, or even allow you to customize
> them.
> 
> But you need to associate the document with a type and then use that to
> guide your data entry.....

That could be useful, but I don't think we're going to do that soon.  

-Lars

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