Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andre> And he's good at it.
I admit that I tend to like that :) It is also a way to get people to
say what they really think.
Andre> A while ago one needed good reasons to get code in and short
Andre> code was considered a plus. Nowadays one has to prove that
Andre> there is not a single possibly valid argument for an extended
Andre> life of several thousand lines of code for which there is
Andre> consensus that it will die at _some_ time anyway.
My problem is not with making programmers happy. It is with making
users of the program happy or at least not too grumpy.
Sure, but the users need the programmers too. ;-)
Programmers complain about supporting two interfaces,
the complaints may or may not be valid.
But it is a fact that lyx have several nice features only
available through the minibuffer, or by copy/paste from
some existing document. Examples:
* Lyx support 16 different kinds of accents that goes on any character.
But no GUI, except for those few that happens to be mapped to
a keyboard key.
* Lyx support many different length spaces, in text as well as
in math. But no way to enter all of them in text.
* Maybe there are some other gems that I don't know either.
One may wonder about the reason - is adding dialogs/menus
cumbersome or boring? That can only get worse if you
have to do it twice.
I don't mind having several interfaces, but I think it'd be nice
if only one was mandatory.
Helge Hafting
