Hi
I have been watching these emails with some interest because there are a few things that I think would make the client version of dia a little better: * Better mac support I use dia to teach Entity Relationship modeling to my business intelligence and analytics students and unfortunately it is a pain in the butt for them to get it working consistently on macs. * It might be helpful to allow users to control the size of objects in drawings I find it hard to control the size of objects, which can be very important when making a nice drawing. * I would like there to be a simple way to add connection points to objects * I would like to be able to create multi-page forms like you can find in the url tablet without custom programming them (which I believe to be hard coded) I like the idea of client server but I would also like to see some of the above implemented, and would try to find time to help spec these ideas out, test them, and document them. All the best . . . Phil Philip M. Troy, Ph.D. Conseiller principal, analytique CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal Université McGill phil.troy.cco...@ssss.gouv.qc.ca ________________________________ From: dia-list <dia-list-boun...@gnome.org> on behalf of Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> Sent: July 16, 2018 3:04 AM To: dia-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: Forking and building a new version of dia I was going thru my email a little too fast and thought I was on the Inkscape list and responded thusly. Yeah, I've always thought Dia has some problems, but still maintain the way to approach this client server Dia would be a separate part, not a fork of the project. And the way to make Dia better is to pitch in, not to fork it, unless you have access to ten or so gung-ho developers ready to do the job. SteveT On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 02:52:02 -0400 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:15:29 +0100 > Marco van Beek <ma...@84andahalf.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am a regular user of dia, and am saddened that it is slowly > > decaying as a project. > > The opinion of a man whose first post to this list in at least 5 years > asks for others to desert Inkscape and join him in a fork. Not say > "how can I help?", but ask others to desert. And just for the record, > I've never thought of Inkscape as "decaying": It works great for me. > > > > > I have an idea that might help create a new version with > > functionality not found in any other system. > > > > I have been documenting a fairly large system and realised how > > quickly the diagrams will go out of date, just because cables get > > moved, and so on. > > > > So it occurred to me that given the xml data format, it should be > > reasonably easy to come up with a client-server version, using an > > API on a standard LAMP/WAMP server. > > Now you see, what you could have done was offered to add your lampwamp > to the existing Inkscape so it becomes a nice, modular tool. I think > that would have created more interest. > > > > > With that in mind, I am happy to put some time into the server side, > > using apache to do the authentication, > > Put some time in? You'd better get ready to treat it as almost a > fulltime job: Forks are brutal. I know you wouldn't expect your > co-forkers to carry the load while you just "put some time into". > Would you? > > > So what do people think? I think we would have to fork the project, > > but if it is dying anyway that is often the easiest way to take > > control. > > I'm not sure how valuable a multiuser Inkscape would be, and of course > if it's stored uncompressed another possibility would be for > everyone to use git on the drawing. But the real problem here is that, > the way you've approached this list on your very first contact, I > doubt you'd be a credible project leader. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence > http://www.troubleshooters.com/key > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
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