On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 03:44:53PM -0400, rgheck wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:06:39PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: >> >>> Actually, I am tempted to remove that item from the Wiki page >>> completely, but as I am heavily biased in this game I might have to >>> let it live for reasons of "political correctness". What a shame... >>> >> >> Turned out that I have not much respect for political correctness when the >> technical foundation is wrong... >> >> > That was quick. > > It's probably worth saying here, too, that the Qt libraries now do a lot > more work in LyX than they did a year or so ago. They are present, for > example, in support/FileName. So while one could write a GTK frontend, the > changes made to LyX's codebase over the last year makes a Qt-less install > impossible.
That's not true. T he use of Qt in LyX is still constricted to a very well defined subset of the LyX code. Most notably there is _not a single line of Qt in the core_. [And we still pay dearly for that restriction...] > Of course, that could be changed again, but, as Andre said > elsewhere, it turns out that there are a lot of advantages to these > changes, especially when you're trying to as serious as we are about being > cross-platform. It's just a fact that Qt runs on a lot of stuff. Nothing to add here. Andre'
