Dear Abdel, On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Sorry in advance for my interruption in this list. I am a core developer > of LyX and I would like to share my experience with you. Please, take it > this way or simply ignore me if this advice sounds inappropriate. > > FYI, LyX has made the same mistake you are doing now with the so called > "GUI independence project". At one point of time we had four frontends > (xforms, Qt3, Qt4 and Gtk), I can assure that this was sucking an awful > lot of energy and that was the main reason why the LyX GUI stagnated for > *years* because every little change to the interface needed to be > propagated to the four frontends. Now that we decided to concentrate on > one frontend and that we eliminated the indirection introduced by the > GUII project, things are moving faster than ever at user interface level.
Thank you for your advice. At this point, the Qt and Cocoa ports are still at a pre-alpha stage, so we cannot really switch to another GUI yet. However, you are probably right that we should concentrate on one GUI. I am asking myself this question every now and then. I admit that maintaining several GUIs at the same time seems frightening. I am personally inclined to move towards Qt, because it is portable and has native look and feel on most platforms. > Side note: I don't see Texmacs as a competitor for LyX, they just fill > different niches. And I am not interested in competition anyway :-) > Actually I think there is a lot of room for collaboration between the > two projects. That is nice to hear; you are welcome. Best wishes, Joris _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
