I have a couple of completely serviceable computers that are losing support from browsers.
I want more of the same - Dia works just fine on Win XP. Win 7, Win 10. I do not care about an online version. How about Dia just gets better in features not the other stuff. If a browser based version was to be cobbled together, I would have no reason to use it. I suspect those who program using Dia as a higher level interface and code generator, would rather it not be other than as it is. Mike On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:58 PM rhkramer--- via dia-list <dia-list@gnome.org> wrote: > 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 > > -- Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 901-2805 Cell and Text (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, Google Phone and Text
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