Re: Dia development info

[rhkramer gmail com]

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.