On Thursday 17 April 2008 18:49:14 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:24 PM, José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Think about lyx-kde in the same foot as lyx-gtk, as being alternatives > > to lyx-qt. > > To know that lyx-qt will survive no matter other developments is good > news already. ^_^
To develop lyx-kde or lyx-gnome FWIW would require gnome or kde to be well supported in all the platforms where lyx-qt works now and although we are coming there it will take some time before this goal is realistic. > > FWIW if lyx-gtk was popular you could have a lyx-gnome to add to the > > party. > > I would venture to say that lyx-gtk can become popular, as popular as > lyx-qt. This is free software and you know the mantra: show us the code. :-) So before we have a real frontend all this is just wishful thinking. :-) > There is a big gtk-horde (I'm part of it) wandering around > Linux, and often this horde is very reticent to QT applications (even > when these are not KDE linked). I much hope that some developer will > get interested in making this frontend functional. With all the due respect but unless you run linux on small machines, and I have pentiums running with 48 and 64 MB of RAM where even X is a killer (they use kdrive FWIW so gnome or kde), this use of a different toolkit is not a real concern. Your sentence above remind me of a recent blog by Aaron Seigo about KDE missing some program that had a Gnome counterpart: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/re-nine-improvements-needed-in-kde-by.html The interesting part is this: "Do you really think our time is best spent spending time reimplementing Orca just so we have something in Qt? Maybe someday someone will, but right now we have better things to do. This kind of mentality of "my toolkit or DIE!" is a disease. It makes us waste more effort and time when it isn't specifically needed. In this case, just use Orca with KDE4 apps. That's why there is AT-SPI: the bridge these gaps between Gtk+, Java, OO.o, Qt, KDE, etc..." FWIW I just agree with this point of view. :-) > > The only that is missing from this picture is lyx-cli (xterm). But for > > Well, you can go back to pure LaTeX in, say, nano, and you're not far > away from lyx-cli. Oh, well, point-and-click will be missing. ^_~ Not necessarily, it should be possible to use curses and use a mouse, or any other library for that purpose but again until we see the code... :-) > Thanks, > Liviu -- José Abílio
