I chatted via e-mail with Ronald Florence about this: it turns out that Qt
for Aqua does not use Meta-key shortcuts for things like menus and buttons,
whereas the X11 version of Qt *does*.  Just today, in fact, I compiled LyX
for Qt/X11 on my TiBook and I can *finally* access everything using the
keyboard, including menus and dialog box buttons.  Thanks for Ronald for
his excellent instructions on how to compile LyX/Qt/X11 for MacOS X.

--Dan.

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Jeff  Whitaker wrote:

>
> Daniel:  But I don't think the Qt version of lyx would have the kind of
> keyboard navigation of menus that you are looking for - that's a feature
> specific to xforms isn't it?  I've got the aqua version of qt lyx
> installed (from http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html), and I can't
> navigate menus with the keyboard.
>
> -Jeff
>
>  On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Daniel M. Bikel wrote:
>
> > It's not that hard compiling qt2 with g++2, using Ronald James' excellent
> > instructions.  So, one way to make a lyx-qt package feasible without
> > disturbing anyone's existing installation is to *add* a pair of packages
> > called something like qt2-g++2 and qt2-shlibs-g++2, and then have the
> > lyx-qt package depend on *those* instead of the regular qt2 packages.  Of
> > course, I'm not on the fink team and don't know how to make fink packages,
> > so someone else would have to do this, but I don't think it would be that
> > hard.
> >
> > --Dan.
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Jeff  Whitaker wrote:
> >
> > > Jens:  A lyx-qt package is not feasible right now.  Since lyx 1.3 won't
> > > compile with apple's gcc 3.1, we currently use g++2 (gcc 2.95) to compile
> > > it.  Due to incompatibilities in the c++ ABI between g++2 and g++3, this
> > > requires all c++ libs that lyx links to be compiled with g++2.  So, in
> > > order to get lyx-qt to work, qt would have to be compiled with g++2 (this
> > > is in the http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_osx.html instructions).  I don't
> > > think we want to mess with the qt package just to get lyx-qt to work -
> > > it's probably better to wait for gcc 3.3 (which hopefully fixes the bug
> > > that prevents lyx from compiling).
> > >
> > > -Jeff
> > >
> > >
>
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