On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:52:21AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > There are those possibilities, but the lyx people will probably give > permission for linking with libforms since they clearly intend for that to > be done. The biggest problem with KDE was outside code that was ported and > that the KDE people did not want to make the needed changes. Has anyone yet > contacted the lyx people?
Yes, me. > > IMO we should try to keep lyx. Or do we have an alternative to offer? With > > kde we could say try gnome which IMO is much better anyway. > > This is not, I repeat -NOT- about whether or not we can replace KDE with > Gnome or we can replace lyx with anything else. We should try to convince > the lyx people to make the changes we need to allow us to keep lyx, just as > we tried with KDE. Please read my statement. I never said this is about replacements. I just said we should try to keep it because it is important IMO. Not that we didn't try with KDE though. > I agreed that KDE needed to be removed because of the license problems, NOT > because it was non-free code or anything so petty. No one said that. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner | private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Use Debian Unternehmensberatung AG | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU/Linux!