* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010609 21:22]:
> Some of us recall wistfully the adaption of a 1.0 vintage LyX from
> xforms to QT in "a week" (or some other ridiculously short period of
> time, was the claim) by one of the original core developers and, if I
> recall correctly, one other gentleman.
>
> I can't help but wonder whether GUI "independence" is a worthwhile
> goal, verses the selection of an alternative toolkit, warts and all.
Well, the developers seem to be holding the opinion that GUI
independence is a good idea, and since we hold the steering wheel, we
have the last say. I don't mean it in the dictatorial way, we do listen
to suggestions from users, but if we drop Xforms and GUII and just go to
another toolkit, we might be dropping some existing users, while not
necessarily gaining new ones.
As long as the developers fancy themselves to do GUII you can't force us
not to do so.
You are free to take the LyX code base, port it to
KDE/Gnome/whatever-you-fancy and maintain this port, no one will stop
you (there still is klyx for those who want KDE lyx).
LyX is under the GPL and you are free to do with it (almost) everything
you fancy.
> It should certainly have caught everyone's attention that one of
> the targeted front-ends, KDE-1, dropped off the list recently.
As everything in the Open-Source/Free-Software world, if something has
no supporters it's gone. KDE-1 has lost all developer support and was
dropped, mostly because it got obsoleted with KDE-2.
> I hope that no one seriously considers supporting the Windows
> environment as one of the reasons. When I read that dependencies on
> X-server are "a problem", I wonder if someone here is getting lost in a
> vision (this one is definitely a fantasy) that a significant user base
> will develop on the Windows platform, if a LyX on Windows (not Cygnus)
> comes online in late 2002 or early 2003.
I actually believe that most of our userbase will be on Windows once
such a version (with no X-Server requirement) surfaces.
After all, most peoples still use Windows and at least in my university,
most computers are Windows and most users prefer Windows (which is a
shame, but this is the current fact).
Obviously, all of this is my idea, other developers, might (and probably
do) hold different views.
--
Baruch Even
http://baruch.ev-en.org/
