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Thought I would see what the Advogato trust web looked like with graphviz. I would not recommend anyone else doing this, as it takes longer than I wanted to wait. Running it on just the purple lines finished in reasonable time, but ghostview was not usable with such a large single page PS file. Someone suggested adding support for graphviz. As graphviz is not open source (despite what they say they believe in their licence faq), we can't link it with dia. If I get around to doing this, it would probably involve modifying graphviz to export the data in an easily readable format, and getting the import filter to read this data through a pipe.

More work on ExtensionClass based pygtk. I now have an almost finished code generator that will convert files in Havoc's new defs format to ExtensionClass based wrappers. There are a few problems, but it is mostly working. Handling of plain functions is partly done as well. I should apply some of the fixes people have sent in to the HEAD branch of pygtk. I should also look at fixing the gettext.py bug for catalogs created on big endian machines. It got up to 37 degrees C today. Very hot.

Have started using Sawmill as my window manager. It feels quite nice and is very configurable. I am sure I could easily waste hours getting it to act exactly how I want it to :) Have started working on the new ExtensionClass based pygtk code. It is on the extension-class-branch of pygtk in CVS. Currently there is not much to see other than a program to convert header files to Havoc's new defs file format and a program to merge changes from one defs file into another (needed because the header parser is not perfect and there is some info that is just not included in C headers). There is also a bit of code in pygtk/gtk/ (I am rearanging some of the modules to be nicer to the module namespace, and friendlier to case insensitive platforms such as win32). Code generator comes next. A new SVG draft came out. It includes stuff about `Exchange SVG'. Maybe it would be good to use it for the shape files in dia instead of the current method using style attributes.

Haven't posted anything here for a while. We released a new version of dia. Some of the features are not complete, but for most things, it is more stable than the last version. I also updated the web site this time :) Still looking into using ExtensionClass in pygtk/gnome-python. I wasn't able to find any info on subclassing ExtensionClasses from C and didn't get any response from Jim Fulton, so I went ahead and added the feature myself. I posted the patch to Jim and the zope-dev list for anyone else who may want it. I hope it gets included, as I don't want to end up maintaining a fork of ExtensionClass. This looks like it will greatly reduce the amount of hand coded stuff found in pygtk, which will be good. There are a number of patches that I have to integrate into pygtk. I will look at that soon. I should also make a new release of libglade as well.

The river is still toxic. There were hardly any boats out on the river today. It is not surprising that there weren't many small boats (you wouldn't want to risk falling in), but there didn't seem to be many larger boats either. Thought a bit about buying my own set of scuba gear. This will be easier than sharing the sets with the other rovers down at Pelican Point. As for dia, I posted something about some of James Cape's suggestions for the UI of the toolbox to the list. Not many people liked the idea of having seperate windows for each sheet. I can't say I like the idea that much.