Re: Fwd: Re: Mandrake and KDe frontend

[Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Martin Vermeer wrote:

> As one who is actually more concerned with this user focus than with the
> code, I still have to say that I can understand it. I can see that
> writing excellent code is laying the basis for developing an excellent
> application. That's why I very much support what is going on, even
> though it may actually slow down things right now from the user point of
> view. Myself I am a complete C++ weenie, but it's clearly the way to go.
> With a piece of software as complex as LyX there is really a possibility
> of "death by entropy" unless there is a strict focus on clean code. See
> what happened with Netscape.

Let me repeat in this context, what I just wrote to Allan:

You have to distuingish between GUII and model/view separation.

You achieve the long-time stability, and avoidance of "death of 
entropy" with basic model/view separation.

In fact, it's easy to argue that the entropy of a GUII design is higher
than the entropy of a model/view separation for one toolkit only.

Greets,

Asger