Hi,

first I would like to thank you for your work on Inkscape. That tool is quite powerful and impressive.

The only thing I miss is a simple way to create class diagrams but I know it's not particularly the job of Inkscape to provide that. UMLet (www.umlet.com) is a very simple UML diagram editor which allows you to describe your classes and draws the shapes automatically. The description looks like this:

MyClass -- id: int /name: String/ -- f(int, String): char

I would like the same feature within Inkscape which is much more powerful. What I have in mind is a plugin which:

1- adds a new kind of shape 2- have a text area to enter the class description 3- do *not* allow the shape to be edited through handles but only through the text area

What do you think? How can I start working on this?