[Pkg-dia-team] Bug#464516: dia: foo
Filip Van Raemdonck
mechanix at debian.org
Thu Feb 7 10:07:16 UTC 2008
Package: dia
Version: 0.96.1-5
Severity: normal
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From: Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix at debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: dia: lacking drawing possibilities
Bcc: Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix at debian.org>
X-Reportbug-Version: 3.39
Package: dia
Version: 0.96.1-5
Trying to draw a tunnel shape by hand (due to lack of an existing one) I
couldn't because the drawing possibilities are severely clumsy.
A few random thoughts:
* I tried to create a tunnel shape first by drawing an elipsis (long
axis vertically oriented) and connecting two horizontal lines to it.
Either I would have to connect one end point of the line to the and
have it be non-horizontal, or have it horizontal but not be
connected; due to the lack of snap-horizontal/vertical/some-degree
drawing modifier.
* I could work around that by enabling snap to raster, snapping the
center point of the elipsis, snapping the two outer points, and
snap-drawing two horizontal lines to the raster at the points where
they'd be connected to the elipsis. Rather cumbersome...
* Next problem was adding the second elipsis at the other side of the
tunnel; I had to draw it away from the endpoints of the horizontal
lines, snap center and outer points similarly to the first one to
align it correctly, then make the horizontal lines longer to snap on
the raster at the point where they'd be connected to this second
elipsis. Again, way to complicated for what should be a simple
drawing.
* Then I realized that the two elipsises were filled with white,
whereas the plane in between them and the horizontal connecting lines
was completely "open".
* As I couldn't figure out how to fill that plane, I removed the lines
tried replacing them with a rectangular shape. Which I could not
connect to the elipsises in any way; while the corners of the
rectangle and the intersection points of the elipsises would both be
snapped to the raster, the shapes were not connected.
* I realized there was another problem: to have a 3d perception, on
elipsis should only be half visible. Could do that by moving it
"below" the rectangle, but then the side of the rectangle above that
elipsis would remain visible. Some way of "breaking up" shapes would
be nice.
* At that point I gave up. I also tried using the existing "storage" shape
from the "network" sheet, but that wouldn't work out either because
a) there's no way to rotate shapes that I could find
b) there's no way to resize shapes only in one direction
KR,
Filip
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dia depends on:
ii dia-common 0.96.1-5 Diagram editor (common files)
ii dia-libs 0.96.1-5 Diagram editor (library files)
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.7-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1+b2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-5 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.3.2-1+b1 X11 Composite extension library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-3 X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages dia recommends:
ii gsfonts-x11 0.20 Make Ghostscript fonts available t
-- no debconf information
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dia depends on:
ii dia-common 0.96.1-5 Diagram editor (common files)
ii dia-libs 0.96.1-5 Diagram editor (library files)
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.7-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1+b2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-5 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.3.2-1+b1 X11 Composite extension library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-3 X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages dia recommends:
ii gsfonts-x11 0.20 Make Ghostscript fonts available t
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