Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-GNOME thoughts

[Fernando L. <fer...@lo...>]

Hi there,

>>True. It really does feel like everything has been done now has it? :-)
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>Mmh.. I don't think so. There are a LOT of apps the linux community is
>missing. One example above all something like dreamweaver.
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My vote would be for ArgoUML (www.tigris.org) rewriten using Java-Gnome. 
It's a terrific UML tool and one of the best diagram tools I've seen. 
But it uses Swing, which doesn't provided the agile and responsive UI 
we're used from ER-Win, Rational Rose or Visio.

By the way, a drawing tool or a generic flow-chart/diagramming tool 
could well be the killer app. Can you remember a Linux app on these 
areas that really shines? Dia? No, it's connectors are cumbersome to 
anyone used to Windows similar tools, and its symbol libraries lacks 
artistic quality. Stretch? Sodipodi? They are promising, but still very 
far from Corel Draw or Freehand.

>I won't make the list longer; My final point is that I think it's better
>contribute improving some existing app like Tiago Cogumbreiro's one, or
>the other ones I've mentioned than rewrite another implementation of an
>existing app.
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>Luca.
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Agreed. :-)


[]s, Fernando Lozano