31 May 2000

I haven't posted anything here for a while. I put out a new version of dia last week. It went pretty well, but there are a few major bugs in the release (missing header include, bug in ellipses in custom shapes). I may make a new release soon when I stabilise the new code I added. With the current CVS code, we have XIM support, tearoff menus that actually work, a less buggy polygon shape, and the start of a beziergon shape. Once the beziergon is in better shape, I will probably release it as dia-0.86, and hope I don't have any more showstopper bugs. Steffen has been working on a DXF import filter, so I will be adding more properties to the standard objects to make it easier to create them through the properties interface.

GNOME 1.2 release came and went. There were some communication problems which pissed off a number of people at the release, but that is behind us now. Over all, this new release is great.

One of the more amusing anti GST campaigns at the moment is the one by the brewers association. They even have a web site for it. The ads for it on television are a bit weird.