"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> ... I noticed that a 'libvisio' is now part of the s/ware.
>  do you have same on your Linux distro?
> code at: <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=libvisio.git>
> installs what look like diagram to raw/text/html converters.

Clicking on that link just gives me a page that says "Gone".

My software manager has Vsd2odg and Vsdump, which might have uses ----

but the useful thing about VISIO is the GUI - the shape handles and numerical
readout of exact x,y coordinates, the snap and glue, alignment and spacing...
Some software comes close - but they really miss those key points and a few
small ease-of-use features.



I think that the "ideal" modeler would be something where you could "draw"
things with that kind of real-time visual feedback, but then have a way of
interspersing some code-driven tasks to add new objects or do something with the
existing ones.

I've dropped breadcrumbs here and there over the years, and it would be great if
we had a wiki page for just keeping a list of ideas and concepts and to-do type
things.  Perhaps not always things that are "possible" - but as an ideal
asymptote to approach.   I mean, how many science fiction books and shows
discussed things that we actually have and _exceeded_ in present day?


But thanks for the heads-up!   :)

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