Flowchart-ish tool

[Steven Stern]

On 12/12/2009 06:18 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Steven Stern
> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>  wrote:
>>> I am trying to create a visual aid for some complex relationships (not
>>> software, sorry). It would seem that some flowchart, or similar
>>> software, might assist. I need to show the relationships between items
>>> and groups of items, and I really don't want to do it by hand.
>>>
>>> Ideally I would identify a group of items as a group, so they could be
>>> place near one another or marked with the same color, or similar. Then I
>>> want to describe the relationship between them, (ex: 'depends on', or
>>> 'funds') and the relationship might look different from each end. Simple
>>> example A and B, from A B has relation 'child' while from B A has
>>> relation 'parent'. That term 'properties' seems to be used in some
>>> things I found, but I haven't gotten a solution.
>>>
>>> Does this ring a bell with anyone? Or even suggest a good manual tool,
>>> neither xfig nor gimp is ideal.
>>>
>> You might be able to do this  in a mind-map tool like XMind.
>> http://xmind.net
>
> Is there some rpm of XMind available?
>
> Paul
>

No, at least not that I've found. I downloaded the "universal" version, 
put it in ~/Xmind and create a desktop shortcut pointing to 
~/xmind-3.1/XMind_Linux/xmind

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   Steve