Re: What's wrong with Dia the way it is?

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

I agree Steve.  

Hans worked very hard to keep Dia like this. I can continue with the current version of Dia - it is always available.  If it strays too much and it doesn't suit me I will simply stop using newer releases.  Dia has already lasted far longer than other programs I use for nearly 20 years now. Still runs well with 32bit OS.  I anticipate being disappointed by a new generation of developers tweaking it into an unusable (for me) form. Everything is impermanent.

Mike

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:34 PM Steve Litt <slitt troubleshooters com> wrote:

Hi all,

What's wrong with Dia just the way it is? It works. It's exportable
into Inkscape for conversion to SVG.

Sure, I have a few qualms with the way Dia works, mainly having to do
with the relationship between text and shapes, but perhaps some good
workaround documentation would settle that. I'd love to have
Visio-quality diagram components, and perhaps if somebody writes some
docs on how to make your own components with the connection points
*you* want, that will be solved. Plus the fact that if everyone
authoring new components puts them together in an online hierarchical
library, perhaps with keyword search, our diagrams could start to rival
those of visio users.

If some of the libraries used by Dia are in the process of being
deprecated, then those certainly must be replaced by their successors.
But other than that, why the emphasis on maintenance? Sometimes
something's so good it needs no more maintenance (fetchmail is one
example).

Right now Dia works for people on all sorts of computers. It's very
DIYable. My experience has been that in many cases, people in a hurry
to "improve" software end up making it into a buggy, DIY-not-allowed
monolithic entanglement.

SteveT

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