[PLUG] Screenshot builder for Linux

Alan Olsen alan.olsen at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 19:13:28 UTC 2007


On 11/27/07, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 10:23 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately Dia suffers from the same problem as kivio -- it would
> > > probably work if there were a good set of UI widget stencils, but I've
> > > been unable to find one.  (kivio's stencil set is actually a superset
> of
> > > the Dia stencils, since kivio can read the dia format.)
> >
> > Rogan,
> >
> >    It's been quite a while since I looked at the 17 or so vector drawing
> > programs for linux, but I have a vague recollection of being able to
> develop
> > custom widget sets in Dia. Take a look at this to see if it helps you:
> >
> >               <http://faemalia.org/wiki/view/Technical/ShapeSet>
>
> Ah.. that page seems to address getting new sheets into the dia
> distribution, but it did turn me on to some new keywords, resulting in
> this link:
>
> http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Walkthrough_Creating0.html
>
> which gives a short tutorial for creating custom shapes, so there is
> hope.  I'll take a more in-depth look at it as I have time.  It may be
> possible to start up a small project to create some screenshot mockup
> sheets afterall :)  (although getting the svg to scale properly for
> more complex widgets is probably non-trivial... anyone else interested
> in helping make shapes?)
>
> --Rogan


http://www.thekompany.com/ has custom shapes for kivio, but none for UI
design.

You could always try using the Glade Interface designer.



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