[Uml-devel] Bugs, bugs, bugs

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 06:49:48PM +0100, Piotr Kolaczkowski wrote:

> I got Umbrello with KDE 3.3.0 release and there are lots of bugs in it.
> It crashed twice when I pressed Ctrl-Z after inserting new node on a line in a 
> class diagram. It crashed even more, but I actually didn't remember which 
> operation it was. It seems to me it is a very unstable release. 

Please try Umbrello 1.3.1 avaiable with KDE 3.3.1 or from uml.sf.net, it fixes quite a
lot of crashes.  The problem you mention above does not crash for me.

> Some other bugs found in just few minutes:
> 1. Moving more than one item at a time spoils layout of a diagram.

Can you give a step-by-step guide to doing this.  It works for me.

> 2. Exporting to png draws a black rectangle on the left side of image (it was 
> ok in previous releases).

Fixed in CVS.

> 3. Using a "snap to grid" option still causes association descriptions to 
> behave strangely when moving objects.

Also fixed in CVS.

> And one wish:
> - It would be good if one could fill attributes and operations of classes in a 
> more pleasant way like e.g. in Rational Rose - by typing declarations with 
> all parameters. Clicking a button to enter/modify each argument of a method 
> or pressing a mouse button to fill an attribute type requires much more time 
> than writing a complete declaration in C/C++/PASCAL or any pseudo-programming 
> language.

No idea how easy/possible this is with Qt Canvas.  Please add a
wishlist entry to bugs.kde.org.

Thanks for your feedback.

Jonathan Riddell