[Uml-devel] Usability

[Thomas Zander]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:20:43AM +0900, P. Fleury wrote:
> I also have been looking in making uml a Koffice part, but I only got 
> the documentation to make it a KPart. Making it a KPart should not be a 
> too big task, and Kopart , well I don't know. 
That would be very nice indeed. I know a bit about KOffice, and making it a
koffice part is not too hard (and yes, you can still run it stand alone, you
just need the koffice libs installed) 
I would really like to see a total integration of an UML editor in the KOffice
suite :)
If you want more info, consider asking the koffice people at koffice at kde.org

> But it would be nice 
> (currently the copy/paste works fine, but KWord can insert pictures only 
> in float, so it appears at random places in the document and it is a bit 
> a pain to fetch it and put it in the right position in the text. So it 
> is not really a uml problem :-)
Just right click the image and click to make it non-floating by selecting 
properties and unchecking the 'Frame is inline' in the Geometry tab. This 
creates a frame you can position anywhere on the page by simply dragging it.

> Thanks for bringing us this tool. I have tried to use kivio, just to 
> almost immediately switch back to uml. You would just need to support 
> stylesheets, and you have your own kivio !

Agreed!

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Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new