Hallo, I havent really followed this list and this discussion but from time to time I feel compelled to write. Today I gave in:
I remember from a year ago, that your Qt port wasnt really using Qt's signal and slot but instead your own implementation, is that still true? I take it that what you need is not really the .ui files from designer but instead you need also the implementation for the dialogs, otherwise that seems kind of worthless to me. Designer dialogs are very easily made by non programmers, you could ask your userbase for that. That is after all the beauty of designer. Personally, I still think that the Qt port is the most important port for Lyx in general, since it opens up the entire Windows world for Lyx to a much larger extent than a Cygwin port ever can. Therefore I hope that you guys will succeed with this. Unfortunately Lyx isnt really as hot as it used to be, many people I tried to advocate it to, are completely put off by its awkward XForms user interface even more simply dont have xforms any longer. Also there are now strong contenders, koffice, openoffice, texmacs etc. quite frankly lyx has become a "one in many". But you know all that. Lyx has still many things ahead of the competition and you guys have done an outstanding job cleaning up things. Maybe you can update on the website what exectly you need, I know a few KDE and Qt developers from some work on KDevelop and maybe there is something that can be done. I did miss the call for help on qt-interest, if it was there. Also how about allowing people access to a part of your CVS repository. In KDE you do get an account because you want one, the benefit of the doubt is given to anybody. No one bothers really sending patches unless it is feature freeze. You may want to consider that instead of sending patches and fixing them endlessly. Regards, Roland > It's simple. We should make it attractive to work on this: > > - Express our gratitude to the people that *do* work on this task > - Express our gratitude to people that demonstrate a willingness to > try to work on this, and motivate them to keep going > - Help where we can with technical questions in this area > - Express that this project is a high-prestige area. Working on this > project gives you ultra-geek-credit > - Consider to ask for external help: We have a case where the most > anticipated LyX release with GUI independence is being held up > by a lack of skilled Qt developers. It should not be impossible > to find some KDE hackers that can implement the missing dialogs. > In this case, we should offer those hackers as much support as > possible, and prominent credit in the release notes. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
