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. _______________________________________________ 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
