On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:28:45PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:

> As a partial counter-example, look at the 'sketch' vector editor,
> For another counter-example, GIMP.

neither of these applications are lyx.

> The hardest bit of exposing an API is factoring your application into
> commands.  Thanks to LFUNs, LyX is already factored!  A python

'fraid not. the LFUN interface is very much incomplete...

> interface would just give access to the LFUNs, I expect.  People
> hacking on plug-ins would naturally tend to request new LFUNs, of
> course, to do that things they wanted to do.

... and will not extend easily to gettin right into the lyx internals

regards
john
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