On a related note, there was some discussion about Office suites on /. the
other day and of course LyX got mentioned, that is actually KLyX got mentioned
and not LyX :-(
>From the little discussion that involved LyX the notion:
"What's happening? Are you ever going to do anything? I reckon XForms sucks
and you should use blah-tk instead" became again visible. And I admit having
had that impression myself once in a while (before following the devel-list).
Anyway the /. insident shows two things:
- LyX is still a household name in the community but people look at KLyX first
then drop LyX alltogether because KLyX doesnt have half the functionality of
LyX. KLyX with official version number 0.10.7 for now over 2 years makes
occasional visitors think the project is dead
- XForms is a major obstacle in LyX popularity.
I have two ideas:
Could we ask Matthias Ettrich to take down the KLyX homepage and instead point
to our page where in exchange for the favor a KLyX section is
somewhat maintained. We actually have the KLyX section already.
Should we set up a nonprofit organization and lobby for corporate sponsorship?
A target would e.g. be O'Reilly. As a publisher they might have interest in the
LyX program. This way, maybe a part time developer could be financed. Together
we could sent Alan on a year long hacking tour :-) and then save for his
liver transplant. Certain tasks could be "sourced out" to SourceXChange or
CoSource.
I think O'Reilly could have some major interest in sponsoring LyX in exchange
we could make cls and layouts for the animal series, improve docbook support
and XML.
Roland
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000,
Allan Rae wrote: > > I also think it'd be worthwhile to keep this thread
running ad infinitum > > with individuals posting whatever snippets from their
respective > > subprojects they want included in LDN. That way I don't have to
write > > everything myself and hopefully someone else might step forward to
act as > > editor. >
> Hot topics for next weeks LDN:
> + Kayvan and Jacek's RPMs
> + double-space?
> + GUI-independence (dialogs, libsigc++ + XTL) hopefully reduce the
> number of "What's happening? Are you ever going to do anything?
> I reckon XForms sucks and you should use blah-tk instead"
> + Insets? What's happening with the inset family (ERT, text etc.)
>
> Maybe I should just settle on several small news items and one feature
> area per fortnight. So I'd feature either GUI-indep or Insets depending
> on which one of them gets written in time (Jürgen or Lars could you
> scribble a couple of paragraphs or provide a copy of an old email you
> think would suit).
>
> We still need someone to gather together the threads of discussion about
> mini-projects like citations (natbib, harvard etc. support), pdflatex,
> layout file extensions and any number of other areas so we can have a
> mini-project page and maybe snare us some new talent.
>
> Allan. (ARRae)
