Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Edwin> 1. profound suspicion of, and resistance to change > > I am perfectly aware that this is my case, but I refuse to cure it, > because I think some negative feedback is always useful in a control > loop.
whom are you telling? ;-) > Edwin> 2. all change must happen through revolution > > What bothers me is rather the following: for some weeks we had people > clamoring "what? we are in 2006 and we still have xforms? Do you know > all the things we could be doing if we did not have it? how can LyX > continue to live in this conditions?" and so on. > > Then xforms got removed. > > Then we had maybe one rejoicing message, but no patch leveraging this > huge freedom we've been giving to ourselves by removing this > abomination (Michael removed the xforms-only stuff, but that is the > least we could do). > > And then the _next_ day (or even the same days), it was "what? we are > in 2006 and we still have qt3? Etc etc". as i remember it the argument was that we don't want to duplicate or triplicate effort on the frontend side > This notion that change is always progress is pure bullshit. oh, i agree > Having > the lyx core do something useful is more IMO important (but less sexy > admittedly) than this GUI obsession. these are two complementary things imo > JMarc > > PS: and it is not even friday yet! my fault, i shouldn't have mentioned the revolution
