On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Svante Signell wrote:
> I really second this initiative. I would like to see a gtk/gnome
> version of LyX: gLyX, in contrast to kLyX distributed with kde. Since
> many Linux distributions already supply the latest teTeX the back-end
> is already there.
>
> I'm using LyX in Solaris 2.5 (sun) and Linux RHL-5.9(i386). In both
> environments the WM is WindowMaker. Additionally on the Linux boxes
> I'm using gnome and is considering a compile of the gnome distribution
> for Solaris.
>
> Getting away from xforms enables a distribution of LyX for many
> vendors such as Redhat and Debian since the source code will be
> available together with the GPL license. Also, a wider use is
> automatic since the LyX distributions will move away from the contrib
> areas.
These kinds of arguements are what caused us to start the gui independence
work in the first place but with the extra reasoning that it would get LyX
onto a variety of other platforms as well, even non-free ones, without
further forking the code base.
That said, we've had at least 5 offers to do a Gtk port once the
gui-independence work has finished. At the moment we have still got about
10 major dialog boxes left to try to extracate from the main codebase and
make gui-independent. There is still some work left to be done on making
other areas gui-independent as well. So if you'd like to help out I
suggest you read the gui-independence documentation (either from the
developers web site or in the development/Code_Rules/ directory of the cvs
repository (see the developers web site for instructions for cvs).
Then have a read through the Popups.h and Popup.C files in the source and
then if you're still interested please contact the developers list again,
especially if you questions or better ideas for doing stuff.
> Sorry for posting to this list without being subscribing. However I'm
> subscribing to the digest as well as the users list.
No apology required.
Allan. (ARRae)
