[Uml-devel] Umbrello2

[Mathias Meyer]

On Friday 28 February 2003 06:40 Andrew Sutton wrote:

> http://trident.cs.kent.edu/~asutton/umbrello
>
I'll definitely take a look at those, if I get my CrossOver Plugin to work 
;)

> anyway, it generated some discussion - or at least input - from the
> prof who was complaining about the lack of a "big picture" for
> navigating through UML diagrams. he mentioned something called the "4 +
> 1" view, which as far as i can tell is a set of views (logical,
> deployment and 2 others) that are connected, in the middle, by the use
> case view. the idea being that the use case view imposes requirements
> on all the other views. what if that was our main canvas and diagrams
> were opened in other top level windows? docking stuff might be nice,
> but i think we should attempt to maximize the workspace. if the
> developer has 4 monitors, lets let him (or her) use them. granted "4 +
> 1" only works for UML, but maybe there's an equivalent for CWM or SPEM.
>
You're lucky. My profs don't waste much time with giving students good 
advice or stuff to think about ;(
But anyway, I don't think that using dock windows limit the developer's 
view to one monitor. Take Together for example: you can dock around, but 
also undock dialogs to make them modal dialogs. Maybe that's not exactly 
what you had in mind, but it is a way to do it.

> i'm not sure about the auto-layout stuff. i'm envisioning a layout
> pipeline with pluggable components. if i can get that defined and
> implemented then we will have the best UML tool known to man - which is
> my goal, by the way - and then we'll all get offered jobs by
> rational... ooops... ibm to make rational rose work like umbrello :)
>
Aah, that's your goal, working with the three amigos, huh? ;)
The fact that Umbrello isn't entirely written in Java yet makes it a very 
good UML tool. That's one of the reasons I've chosen it.

What about laying out first GUI thoughts with maybe Qt Designer or just 
simple pictures? Might be a good way to represent such first ideas. And 
maybe we can patent first ideas like Apple did for iTunes ;)

Regards,
Mathias
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