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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Kivio Stencil sets  and KSpread changes (Ariya look)
From:       Ariya Hidayat <ariya () tf ! itb ! ac ! id>
Date:       2002-03-27 3:56:25
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> Because you have some experience with UML I would
> consider you perfect for the job of creating
> that/those stencil sets.  Ariya is more of a
> programmer than me (at least I think so) and he might
> be willing to look into what would be needed for us to
> import Dia stencils.  Ariya?  Maybe?  If that can be
> done without too much heartache than I will contact
> the creators/maintainers of the Dia stencil sets to
> see if any of them would fuss if we did some
> incorporation into the base Kivio install.

WRT Dia, I've to take a look first, it's been quite a long time since the
last time I touched Dia.

Another possibilty would be creating each shape in the stencils from SVG
files (or if you have WMF, convert it first, best using StarOffice). This
can even be automated using Perl/Python scripts (despite the fact that I
almost know nothing about creating scripts).

IMHO the big problem is not _how_ to create the stencils because I hope we
can tackle this without really big effort. From my POV, the problem is
_who_ will do the stencils itself. I am no artist and even cannot draw a
relatively simple shape well so it must be someone else :-) Anyway, if
anyone expericend with this vector graphics and s/he could do some shapes
and export them to SVG (perhaps using Karbon?), I'm willing to convert it
to Kivio stencils.

> Ariya, about KSpread - YES! Those are the exact types
> of divisions I was thinking of.  It will entail
> breaking up two files into several smaller ones, and
> updating the includes (I belive) in several others,
> but not much more than that.  I'll set out tonight or
> tomorrow to look at what I might have missed. Do any
> of the KSpread developers mind having the functions in
> KSpread split up?  David F. is swamped, but I learned
> my lesson about starting stupid ideas without getting
> aproval first from him recently, so on this I'm going
> to wait for a yay or nay from the big maintainers of
> KSpread.

Hmm, we might leave the header file as it is, right ? What I imagine is
just splitting up the interpreter code itself but keep the .h file. One
more question: how can we preserve CVS log for the file then ?

BTW, thanks for that "nifty" :-)

:: ariya :: www.advogato.org/person/ariya ::  ICQ# 30245835
"Why explain in English what can be explained in C++?"

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