Hi Thorsten, Michael, As we discussed before, java is not preferred around LibreOffice. That is why we decided to check the possible ways. However we have a never (interm) release with more diagrams, possibilities like converting between diagrams, etc. What do you think about? I hope we can gang up on smart art thing but we prefer to create tools for end user to create diagrams in user friendly way. Cheers, KAMI <div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/20 Thorsten Behrens <<a href="mailto:thb@documentfoundation.org">thb@documentfoundation.org</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">KAMI911 KAMI911 wrote: > We are very excited about the possibilities of LibreOffice, so we decided to > try to rewrite Diagram extension [1] in C as a separated module. Are there > any ongoing development to create SmartArt related thing? Maybe the best > would be to as like the Chart2 module. But we need help for the first steps. > How can we start it? Or are there any related documentation, design draft, > goal etc? > </div>Hi Kami, just played a bit with that extension, really nice - but why would you want to go for a _C_ lib? As Michael mentions, there's a prototype patch to handle Smart art in Draw/Impress, it's here: <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/tree/patches/dev300/oox-smartart-import.diff" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/tree/patches/dev300/oox-smartart-import.diff</a> Would be cool to work on that jointly! Cheers, -- Thorsten </blockquote></div>