[Gllug] Thoughts on the breadth of Free Software

[Richard Turner]

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Aaron Trevena wrote:
> On 16/09/06, Richard Turner <richard at zygous.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Indeed, I spent quite a while a couple of years ago looking for a decent
>> tool for doing UML diagrams - I only ever really find class diagrams and
>> sequence diagrams useful, but even then finding an app (actually a Gnome
>> or not-KDE app - I don't have all those KDE libraries installed and
>> don't want them!) that was stable, easy to use and produced nice looking
>> diagrams I could print was nigh-on impossible.
> 
> Have you tried Umbrello?
> 
> I found it worked rather nicely.

I have - I thought it wasn't bad, but it's a KDE app and I don't want to
install hundreds of Mb of additional libraries, and wait for them to
load, just to run a relatively simple diagram tool.

The last time I used it was in 2004, when I responded to this feature
request[1], which I now appear to have adopted!. I'm sure it's come a
long way since then, but it appears that this feature hasn't been added
and it's one I'd find really useful...

Anyway, I know I've ruled-out quite a lot of apps by not wanting to use
KDE, but (and I know I risk starting another heated debate by saying
so!) I don't really like KDE. Happily I'm not in desperate need for a
UML tool (does anyone need to draw UML that badly?!) so I can wait for a
 decent Gnome alternative.

Richard.

[1] - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54307

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