And TeXmacs has a smaller developer community... Á.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> Ok ... how can I help to improve the mac port? >>> >> >> the port is in a very early stage. My first goal has been to implement >> roughly the basic stuff, also to get acquainted with the source code. Joris >> has made a very nice work in separating the different layers of the GUI and >> it has been not so difficult to make TeXmacs run natively under cocoa. > > Hello, > > Sorry in advance for my interruption in this list. I am a core developer of > LyX and I would like to share my experience with you. Please, take it this > way or simply ignore me if this advice sounds inappropriate. > > FYI, LyX has made the same mistake you are doing now with the so called "GUI > independence project". At one point of time we had four frontends (xforms, > Qt3, Qt4 and Gtk), I can assure that this was sucking an awful lot of energy > and that was the main reason why the LyX GUI stagnated for *years* because > every little change to the interface needed to be propagated to the four > frontends. Now that we decided to concentrate on one frontend and that we > eliminated the indirection introduced by the GUII project, things are moving > faster than ever at user interface level. > > So, IMNSHO, you should concentrate on one cross-platform graphical toolkit. > Don't get me wrong, it's a very good idea to separate the core code from the > GUI code but wasting energy on multiple frontends is not. Of course, > everybody is free to do what he/she wants but, if you want Texmacs to > evolve, that's not the right way IMO. There are a number of cross-platform > toolkits available, you should just pick one (Qt, Gtk, Java, etc). I can > assure you that the user won't see the difference between a Cocoa app and a > Qt/Mac app, really. > > Side note: I don't see Texmacs as a competitor for LyX, they just fill > different niches. And I am not interested in competition anyway :-) Actually > I think there is a lot of room for collaboration between the two projects. > > Sorry again if my post seems arrogant, that was not the intention, I just > couldn't resist to share my LyX experience with you :-) > > Regards, > Abdel. > > PS: I am not sure if I need to subscribe in order to post so I put some > people in copy, hope you don't mind. > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
