Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-25 Thread John Weiss
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 03:09:32PM +0100, Steven van Dijk wrote: If you port using the Cygwin library, you DO have an Ansi-standard, Posix-compliant interface. Only the GUI would be really native and it can True. I was only speaking about my experiences using Micro$oft native compilers. --

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-25 Thread John Weiss
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 03:09:32PM +0100, Steven van Dijk wrote: > If you port using the Cygwin library, you DO have an Ansi-standard, > Posix-compliant interface. Only the GUI would be really native and it can True. I was only speaking about my experiences using Micro$oft native compilers.

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-23 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:36:15AM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: John Weiss blathered: This is, as I understand it, the main problem with WxWin. The code is bloated: it's a library/GUI toolkit implemented *on* *top* *of* other toolkits, libraries, and GUI's. Nope, sorry,

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-23 Thread Steven van Dijk
At 09:48 AM 2/22/99 -0500, you wrote: 3) WinNT and its C++ comiplers are a fragrant, steaming, fetid mount of feces. Agreed, but... The compiles on NT are slower. The compiler has all sorts of shit-for-brains "Microsoft extensions" that deviate from the ANSI standard. The OS

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-23 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, John Weiss wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:36:15AM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: John Weiss blathered: This is, as I understand it, the main problem with WxWin. The code is bloated: it's a library/GUI toolkit implemented *on* *top* *of* other

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-23 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:36:15AM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > John Weiss blathered: > > > This is, as I understand it, the main problem with WxWin. The code is > > bloated: it's a library/GUI toolkit implemented *on* *top* *of* other > > toolkits, libraries, and GUI's. Nope,

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-23 Thread Steven van Dijk
At 09:48 AM 2/22/99 -0500, you wrote: >3) WinNT and its C++ comiplers are a fragrant, steaming, fetid mount >of feces. Agreed, but... > The compiles on NT are slower. The compiler has all >sorts of shit-for-brains "Microsoft extensions" that deviate from >the ANSI standard. The

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-23 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, John Weiss wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:36:15AM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > John Weiss blathered: > > > > > This is, as I understand it, the main problem with WxWin. The code is > > > bloated: it's a library/GUI toolkit implemented *on* *top* *of*

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-20 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard E. Hawkins Esq.) writes: asger aspirated, 3) Fun. It was fun to see the new abstract painter working when we had the Copenhagen meeting. It will be fun to see the curses version on the screen. Fun? I could seriously use the curses version at the moment.

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-20 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Paul Seelig writes: PS [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard E. Hawkins Esq.) writes: asger aspirated, 3) Fun. It was fun to see the new abstract painter working when we had the Copenhagen meeting. It will be fun to see the curses version on the screen. Fun? I could seriously

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-20 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On 21 Feb 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: PS Just two drop my two euro: I'm as well very keen on a ncurses or PS SLang based LyX. Actually this sounds to me more attractive then PS the X toolkit stuff. Hah, eat this, hideous StarOffice, slayer PS of RAM! ;-) Where can we find C++

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-20 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: AAS On 21 Feb 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: PS Just two drop my two euro: I'm as well very keen on a ncurses or PS SLang based LyX. Actually this sounds to me more attractive then PS the X toolkit stuff. Hah, eat this, hideous StarOffice, slayer

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-20 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard E. Hawkins Esq.) writes: > asger aspirated, > > > 3) Fun. It was fun to see the new abstract painter working when we had the > > Copenhagen meeting. It will be fun to see the curses version on the screen. > > Fun? I could seriously use the curses version at the

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-20 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Paul Seelig writes: PS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard E. Hawkins Esq.) writes: >> asger aspirated, >> >> > 3) Fun. It was fun to see the new abstract painter working when >> we had the > Copenhagen meeting. It will be fun to see the curses >> version on the screen. >> >> Fun?

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-20 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On 21 Feb 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > PS> Just two drop my two euro: I'm as well very keen on a ncurses or > PS> SLang based LyX. Actually this sounds to me more attractive then > PS> the X toolkit stuff. Hah, eat this, hideous StarOffice, slayer > PS> of RAM! ;-) > > Where can

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-20 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: AAS> On 21 Feb 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: PS> Just two drop my two euro: I'm as well very keen on a ncurses or PS> SLang based LyX. Actually this sounds to me more attractive then PS> the X toolkit stuff. Hah, eat this, hideous StarOffice,

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-15 Thread John Weiss
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:10:06PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: My primary motivations for GUI independence are: 1) Aesthetics. I'm a computer science guy, and I like a good design. Of course, I like the program to look good on the screen too, but I like a clean code more. This

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-15 Thread Steven van Dijk
At 07:48 PM 2/14/99 -0500, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:10:06PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: My primary motivations for GUI independence are: 1) Aesthetics. I'm a computer science guy, and I like a good design. Of be tailored to general use. We don't care about general

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-15 Thread John Weiss
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:10:06PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > My primary motivations for GUI independence are: > > 1) Aesthetics. I'm a computer science guy, and I like a good design. Of > course, I like the program to look good on the screen too, but I like a clean > code more.

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-15 Thread Steven van Dijk
At 07:48 PM 2/14/99 -0500, you wrote: >On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:10:06PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: >> My primary motivations for GUI independence are: >> 1) Aesthetics. I'm a computer science guy, and I like a good design. Of >be tailored to general use. We don't care about general

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Roland Krause wrote: Allan, thanks a lot for your answer. I take this private, dont know whether it would be interesting for the mailing list. Repost if you think its appropriate. It seems you left the cc:lyx-devel in yourself so I've elected to just followup to the

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Roland Krause wrote: > Allan, > thanks a lot for your answer. I take this private, dont know whether it would > be interesting for the mailing list. Repost if you think its appropriate. It seems you left the cc:lyx-devel in yourself so I've elected to just followup to the

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-13 Thread Roland Krause
Allan, thanks a lot for your answer. I take this private, dont know whether it would be interesting for the mailing list. Repost if you think its appropriate. On 13-Feb-99 Allan Rae wrote: snipped some stuff 8--- Just because we are aiming for support of KDE *and* GNOME doesn't mean we

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-13 Thread Roland Krause
Allan, thanks a lot for your answer. I take this private, dont know whether it would be interesting for the mailing list. Repost if you think its appropriate. On 13-Feb-99 Allan Rae wrote: snipped some stuff 8<--- > > Just because we are aiming for support of KDE *and* GNOME doesn't mean we

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-12 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Roland Krause wrote: Jean-Marc, On 12-Feb-99 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Roland" == Roland Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roland All Wxwin ports are native, so speed is not an issue, afaict. Roland Code bloat is something you will get anyway, either it's your

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-12 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Roland Krause wrote: > Jean-Marc, > > On 12-Feb-99 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> "Roland" == Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Roland> All Wxwin ports are native, so speed is not an issue, afaict. > > Roland> Code bloat is something you will get

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Steven" == Steven van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steven There will be a main toolkit which will replace Xforms though, Steven isn't it? Instead of replacing Qt with my own toolkit I would Steven prefer if LyX would use a toolkit that already is suitable for Steven Winxx. Someone who is

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Roland Krause
I have recently looked at wxwin/wxgtk again and it may solve the entire problem as it provides an interface to a variety of platforms. THey may never come up with a qt port as the qt license prohibits writing a wrapper around it. Anyway, they have ports to Win,Motif, Gtk and Mac... Wouldnt

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Roland" == Roland Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roland I have recently looked at wxwin/wxgtk again and it may solve Roland the entire problem as it provides an interface to a variety of Roland platforms. THey may never come up with a qt port as the qt Roland license prohibits writing a

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's the price to pay in terms of code bloat and speed? I doubt that a cross platform tk could solve magically all our problems. That's right, and I think we have discussed that point many many times in the past. So IMO it's necessary to add

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Roland Krause
On 11-Feb-99 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Roland" == Roland Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roland I have recently looked at wxwin/wxgtk again and it may solve Roland the entire problem as it provides an interface to a variety of Roland platforms. THey may never come up with a qt port as

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Steven" == Steven van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steven> There will be a main toolkit which will replace Xforms though, Steven> isn't it? Instead of replacing Qt with my own toolkit I would Steven> prefer if LyX would use a toolkit that already is suitable for Steven> Winxx.

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Roland Krause
I have recently looked at wxwin/wxgtk again and it may solve the entire problem as it provides an interface to a variety of platforms. THey may never come up with a qt port as the qt license prohibits writing a wrapper around it. Anyway, they have ports to Win,Motif, Gtk and Mac... Wouldnt

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Roland" == Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roland> I have recently looked at wxwin/wxgtk again and it may solve Roland> the entire problem as it provides an interface to a variety of Roland> platforms. THey may never come up with a qt port as the qt Roland> license prohibits

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > What's the price to pay in terms of code bloat and speed? I doubt that > a cross platform tk could solve magically all our problems. That's right, and I think we have discussed that point many many times in the past. So IMO it's necessary to

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-11 Thread Roland Krause
On 11-Feb-99 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Roland" == Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Roland> I have recently looked at wxwin/wxgtk again and it may solve > Roland> the entire problem as it provides an interface to a variety of > Roland> platforms. THey may never come up

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-10 Thread johnston
I can understand that. But do you think there will still be a window-manager-independent version of Lyx like there is today? What do you mean - I know several people using _KLyX_ on fvwm2 :-) I now understand that is possible. Thanks. Scott Johnston

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-10 Thread johnston
> >I can understand that. But do you think there will still be a > >window-manager-independent version of Lyx like there is today? > > What do you mean - I know several people using _KLyX_ on fvwm2 :-) I now understand that is possible. Thanks. Scott Johnston

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
jmarc jwrote, The route we are trying to take is to have a tk-independent LyX core, and let people develop native frontends on top of that. It is clear that KDE people, for example, would not want something which looks like a KDE app, but something which *is* a KDE app. also, it strikes me

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-09 Thread johnston
The route we are trying to take is to have a tk-independent LyX core, and let people develop native frontends on top of that. It is clear that KDE people, for example, would not want something which looks like a KDE app, but something which *is* a KDE app. I can understand that. But do you

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-09 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
I can understand that. But do you think there will still be a window-manager-independent version of Lyx like there is today? Of course there will be -- I guess the XForms port will stay alive as it is. Hopefully, there will also be a ncurses version too. Greets, Asger

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-09 Thread Eric J. Schwertfeger
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The route we are trying to take is to have a tk-independent LyX core, and let people develop native frontends on top of that. It is clear that KDE people, for example, would not want something which looks like a KDE app, but something which

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
jmarc jwrote, > The route we are trying to take is to have a tk-independent LyX core, > and let people develop native frontends on top of that. It is clear > that KDE people, for example, would not want something which looks > like a KDE app, but something which *is* a KDE app. also, it

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-09 Thread johnston
> The route we are trying to take is to have a tk-independent LyX > core, and let people develop native frontends on top of that. It is > clear that KDE people, for example, would not want something which > looks like a KDE app, but something which *is* a KDE app. I can understand that. But do

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-09 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> I can understand that. But do you think there will still be a > window-manager-independent version of Lyx like there is today? Of course there will be -- I guess the XForms port will stay alive as it is. Hopefully, there will also be a ncurses version too. Greets, Asger

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-09 Thread Eric J. Schwertfeger
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The route we are trying to take is to have a tk-independent LyX > > core, and let people develop native frontends on top of that. It is > > clear that KDE people, for example, would not want something which > > looks like a KDE app, but something

toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-08 Thread johnston
Dear Lyx developers, Congratulations on your 1.0.0 release. It built without any problem on my RedHat 4.1 Linux box with gcc-2.7.2.1, and I can tell it is going to be my document editor of choice. As you advance toward your goal of toolkit agnosticism, have you considered the use of ivtools

toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-08 Thread johnston
Dear Lyx developers, Congratulations on your 1.0.0 release. It built without any problem on my RedHat 4.1 Linux box with gcc-2.7.2.1, and I can tell it is going to be my document editor of choice. As you advance toward your goal of toolkit agnosticism, have you considered the use of ivtools