Monthly Archives: December 1999

I made another release of Dia. This one should fix the bugs people reported just after the 0.82 release. You can now copy/paste image and bezier objects without dia crashing. I also added a new export dialog modeled after gimp's save dialog. This also allows me to separate off export filters to plugins, which is good. I have included a partially complete CGM filter with the new release. It does everything except beziers at the moment. There is a polybezier element in CGM v3, but I have not had much luck finding docs for it. I don't even know if it is meant to be a closed, filled region or just a line. Some more work on gnorpm. It almost compiles again. I just need to finish off converting the web find window to the new API and then I can start testing it. After that I should see what changes are necessary to get it compiling with RH6.1 and make sure it doesn't crash in that setup. Then I can go and start cleaning out all the bug reports. Is there any record for the largest number of merged bug reports closed in one go? It certainly feels like I shoulf be in the running :)

I made my first release of dia as its new maintainer. It mostly seemed to go well. There are a few bugs that showed up after the release, so I will have to fix those. I guess we can get back to breaking things to add new features. Did not end up going diving on monday night, since it felt like more work getting everything ready than we wanted to do. I commited the new GnomePaperSelector widget and GnomeUnitSpinner widget to gnome-libs HEAD branch. As well as looking nicer, it should be easier to use for people using something other than points as the paper units. Doing a bit more work on the glibwww based rpmfind code in gnorpm. I think I am getting close to having the find directory compiling correctly. Then I will have to check if all my logic is correct and convert the rest of gnorpm (which would be easier).

I got my uni results yesterday. I got good marks in both my computing and pure maths majors. I got invitation for honours year letters from both the maths and computer science departments. I will have to decide where I want to do honours. Apparently I got the highest score in the computer networks unit, which means I will be getting a prize from a company called AlphaWest. I converted the page setup widget I wrote for dia to use GnomePaper and GnomeUnit. After doing a bit more cleanup, and implementing the old GnomePaperSelector interface, I will commit it to gnome-libs HEAD branch. Dia now has a bezier connection line. It is a mixture of work by Lars Clausen and me. It works fairly well. There is a patch for it from Lars to better handle the initial drag when placing the object, but I haven't got round to applying it. Cyrille has a few patches to start doing the properties interface. I haven't read them yet, and I think I will wait till 0.82 is out before applying them anyway. I should really do a bit more work on gnome-python and gnorpm. I should probably spend a while bringing gnome-python back up to scratch and release a new version. As for gnorpm, I have got a bit stuck implementing the dependencies code in terms of glibwww. It is quite difficult handling the state between callbacks.

Alexander Larsson handed over the job of maintainer of dia to me. He has done a great job so far, but did not have enough time to put into maintaining it. I have a few ideas for new features I want to work on. These include the scripting interface, object properties and printing changes. If anyone wants to help out with dia, join the dia mailing list.