Re: Prerelease of 0.94 is out

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 22:23, Roland Stigge wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 20:21, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > Dia now opens a new diagram when started without arguments. Is this
> > > intended or debug code?
> > 
> > I believe that it makes sense and because it means you are ready to start
> > that little bit sooner it feels almost faster.
> > 
> > Do you dislike it?  Is it very annoying or just surprising?
> 
> It's surprising. Just noticed it switching from 0.93 to the new
> prerelease.
> 
> Consider: Other programs (GIMP) don't do it. I don't know if we should
> really try to predict what users want. Do you think a user starting dia
> wants to create a new diagram in most cases?

Other other programs (Gnumeric, Abiword) do do it.  Though they both
have the behaviour that Alan described of the first diagram being
overwritten if a diagram is opened.  Would be a good thing to add.

-Lars