On 05/12/2018 18.32, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > What's wrong with Dia just the way it is? It works. It's exportable > into Inkscape for conversion to SVG.
Hi, all, Though I like Dia (*), there are (many) places where it's sorely lacking. My biggest peeves are: * Shapes rotation - you can't rotate shapes in 90 degrees increments, not speaking of free rotation. * Gradients are not there either. * Ad-hoc adding or moving connection points. And there are others that can be worked around or that i can live without. If Dia now approaches obsolescence due to unsupported libraries, either we port it to the new ones, or it will disappear. Edheldil Btw, there still exists a "central" repository for Dia shapes - http://dia-installer.de . Sadly, its maintainer, Steffen Macke, died several years ago and I doubt anyone still manages it. (*) I know Dia for quite a long time and made some (not so great) shapes for it as well, so my criticism is not really meant in the bad vein. I also understand that if anybody wants changes and features, it's up to him to make them, because there's nobody employed to do work on Dia. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
