Re: Dia development info

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

I have a couple of completely serviceable computers that are losing support from browsers.

I want more of the same - Dia works just fine on Win XP. Win 7, Win 10.

I do not care about an online version. How about Dia just gets better in features not the other stuff. If a browser based version was to be cobbled together, I would have no reason to use it. I suspect those who program using Dia as a higher level interface and code generator, would rather it not be other than as it is.

Mike

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:58 PM rhkramer--- via dia-list <dia-list gnome org> wrote:

On Monday, August 12, 2019 03:28:34 PM Alejandro Imass wrote:
> The move to GTK3 and general modernization is a good idea, BUT...
>
> Is it too crazy to take the core values of DIA and think about a
> collaborative and/or Web-based version? Lucidcharts is very rapidly
> spreading and there doesn't seem to be an open source of free software
> alternative. An Open Source collaborative diagraming tool that could also
> produce code (like dia2code) I think would be a way to revive this. If not
> a pure-web version, at least think about the way Apple Productivity tools
> have done it: native apps, that allow real-time collaboration AND also
> provides a Web component for people that are non-Mac users.

I'm not a developer, and don't know what others will say, but I'd want to
request that the stand-alone desktop version continue to exist, and be
maintained and improved.

And, for an online / web version, I'd vote against basing a web version on
Java based on my experience with the drawing tool used by TWiki several years
ago, which (1) I don't immediately recall the name of, but (2) was very slow
and cumbersome to use online.  (And the only way to use it was online.)

I have no disagreement with a compatible online version of Dia is developed,
especially if it is faster and less cumbersome than I experienced with the
tool mentioned above.


> For mainstream use, collaboration and the seamless integration with other
> widely used tools such as Attlasian Confluence is essential. The concept of
> stand-alone desktop tools is rapidly fading, at least IMHO.
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