Debian Bug report logs - #61422
dia is too metric

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "David Z. Maze" <dmaze@mit.edu>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dia is too metric

Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:58:01 -0500

Package: dia
Version: 0.84-1
Severity: normal

dia's default paper size is A4, which is great for European users but not
so wonderful for US people, who generally use 8.5x11 "letter" sized paper.
dia should probably respect the setting of /etc/papersize in determining
its default document size.

Also, dia does everything in metric units.  This is probably all well
and good, but I'm a little more comfortable in English units
(inches and points).  There doesn't seem to be a setting in dia to
change its default units away from centimeters; there probably
should be.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux donut 2.2.13 #1 Mon Mar 20 17:57:48 EST 2000 i586

Versions of packages dia depends on:
ii  gdk-imlib1                    1.9.8-4    Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library fo
ii  libart2                       1.0.56-2   The Gnome canvas widget           
ii  libc6                         2.1.3-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libglib1.2                    1.2.7-2    The GLib library of C routines    
ii  libgtk1.2                     1.2.7-1    The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii  libpng2                       1.0.5-1    PNG library - runtime             
ii  libpopt0                      1.4-1      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml1                       1.8.7-1    GNOME XML library                 
ii  xlib6g                        3.3.6-6    shared libraries required by X cli
ii  zlib1g [libz1]                1:1.1.3-5  compression library - runtime     

Message #12 received at 61422@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>

To: 61422@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dia is too metric

Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:27:19 +0100

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tag 61422 upstream
forwarded 61422 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133644
thanks

Hi,

while dia seems to respect /etc/papersize now, the metric units (cm) are
still used e.g. for "Page Setup".

I forwarded this bug to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133644

bye,
  Roland

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Message #21 received at 61422-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 61422-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: closing 61422

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:38:52 +0200

close 61422 0.97.1-3
thanks

An application being "metric" is not a bug nowadays. Being completely ISO
conformant is fine. And different papersizes are already supported. Closing
this bug.
-- 
Roland Stigge

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