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 Steve Litt December 2018 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ 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