Organizing Shapes and Palettes

[Sean Ahern]

Unfortunately, that doesn't quite solve the problem.  See one of my  
original paragraphs:

>>> But this doesn't address the Palettes, nor does it address the  
>>> stencils that are bundled into OmniGraffle itself.  I suppose I  
>>> could start mucking about inside that package "Contents/Resources/ 
>>> English", but that doesn't seem like the best solution,  
>>> especially across upgrades.

There's more that needs to be organized than just what can be solved  
by subdividing the Stencils file.

-Sean

--
Sean Ahern
Oak Ridge National Laboratory


On Jan 26, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Joel Page wrote:

> Just create a folder inside of /Application Support/OmniGraffle/ 
> Stencils/ and put the stencil files in there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Thomas Waters wrote:
>
>> Yes!!!!  Great question.  I want to know the same thing!  Like  
>> right now, if I want to do a graffle showing computer network,  
>> there are at least three different stencils I need, and found in  
>> different places.  I'd like to be able to re-organize my stencils,  
>> group them would be awesome.
>> On Jan 26, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Sean Ahern wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any way to give my stencil menu a better organization?
>>>
>>> Over time, I've collected a large set of stencils and other  
>>> customizations.  That stencil menu is starting to get a bit  
>>> cluttered and unwieldy and I'm looking for a way to clean it up.   
>>> I've gone into my ~/Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/ 
>>> Stencils directory and done some work.  I've made subdirectories  
>>> for categories and shuffled appropriate stencils around.  It  
>>> helps some.
>>>
>>> But this doesn't address the Palettes, nor does it address the  
>>> stencils that are bundled into OmniGraffle itself.  I suppose I  
>>> could start mucking about inside that package "Contents/Resources/ 
>>> English", but that doesn't seem like the best solution,  
>>> especially across upgrades.
>>>
>>> In addition, some of the Stencils really could use better names.   
>>> As interesting as I think the items in "FiguresByThor" and  
>>> "WireframeShapes" are, they really aren't very descriptive as to  
>>> their purpose.
>>>
>>> What I'm looking for is a general "Add-ons Manager", similar to  
>>> the bookmarks editor you find in Firefox or Safari, that would  
>>> let me customize these add-ons as I like.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> -Sean
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sean Ahern
>>> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
>>>
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