Re: Dia and LibreOffice?

[Thomas Harding <tom thomas-harding name>]

Le 13/10/2010 08:11, Maciej Jaros a écrit :
> At 2010-10-13 06:48, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:29:11 -0700, <paul hermeneutic gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone suggested the possibility of Dia becoming a diagramming
> > > tool in LibreOffice?
> > >
> > > It would take a lot of work, but Dia could at least provide a starting
> > > framework.
> > >
> > > Would this be a welcomed opportunity or something to be avoided?
> >
> > I'm no authority on programming or whatsoever, but, as a user, I'd
> > prefer ways for both programs to be integrated with one another.
> >
> > Thinking on making Dia part of LibreOffice implies that every
> > non-existing tool in LibreOffice that needs to interact with LO in
> > some way, to become part of the suit (read: Project Manager,
> > PIM, Mind-mapper...)
> >
> > I'd rather have all of them integrate with the current desktop, and
> > have them all interact and share information with a nice,
> > consistent and integrating interface.
>
> That would probably be hard to do as OOo is more Java oriented and to 
> replace Draw more exporting tools should be made. Also I think Draw is 
> a bit more user friendly, but then again it doesn't compare with the 
> amount of shapes Dia has. Especially with more complicated ones like 
> those for UML.
>
> What would be the benefit? Well I think the main benefit for users 
> would be that they could edit diagrams inside the Writer (if Dia would 
> be properly integrated). Plus diagrams could be vector and scale 
> better for different uses.
+1

What could be done in OOo is to embed the dia file and it's custom 
shapes and included images, as Ooo (aka
LibreOffice now) uses a zipped archive of files to include it's own data.

A LibreOffice plugin would allow to import (by changing paths inside the 
dia file to allow packing then keep
the original relatives paths as meta-data) then re-export the dia file 
to allow the other persons to edit.

Also, it would be great to dia to include a "zip-like format export" for 
the same reasons.

So, both the edit diagram plugin in LibreOffice and the "future dia 
magic button" will unpack the diagram
to allow editing (plus included custom shapes editing and images update) 
unpacked in a "filename like directory"
or, at user choice and/or by detecting original images/custom shapes 
paths, choose to use the original file paths
then update the original zip archive.


Would it satisfy any ?

Cheers,
--
TSFH