Dear Lyx developers,
Congratulations on your 1.0.0 release. It built without any problem
on my RedHat 4.1 Linux box with gcc-2.7.2.1, and I can tell it is
going to be my document editor of choice.
As you advance toward your goal of toolkit agnosticism, have you
considered the use of ivtools (http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/)? It
has switchable look-and-feel with existing support for old-Mac,
OpenLook, Motif, and an SGI-variant of Motif. This list could be
expanded to include the look of gtk+, KDE, Windows, and new-Mac, all
without any fundamental changes to the infrastructure of the toolkit.
And the resultant code can go anywhere you have POSIX, a plain-vanilla
C++ compiler, and support for the X protocol (i.e. a Transmeta box).
An alternate to consider would be Fresco
(http://www.iuk.tu-harburg.de/fresco/ *and*
http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/fresco.html). It has a single
look-and-feel, evolved from SGI-Motif, with native cross-platform
support (Windows-NT, Unix/X11, Macintosh).
You can read more about the history of these toolkits at
http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/interviews.html.
Scott Johnston
Vectaport Inc.
http://www.vectaport.com
