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'

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