Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Designing a XForms dialog with fdesign was always a tedious task,
| which is why there are new features with no GUI support (for example:
| per-paragraph spacing).
That was me beeing afraid that my fdesign would ruin fd files etc.
| With the GUII, the situation is worse, as the GUI work
| is needed to be repeated 3 times (or even more in the future).
|
| So, I want to suggest a new approach for doing GUII dialogs:
| The dialogs structure and logiv will be defined by in a simple text file,
| and the dialogs will be built in run-time from these files.
| An example for this approach can be seen in Kaptain
| (http://www.hszk.bme.hu/~tz124/kaptain/) which is a "universal graphical
| front-end for command line programs". See
| http://www.hszk.bme.hu/~tz124/kaptain/docs/enscript.html
| for an example.
Note that we do not want/require all the frontends to be equal. We
want there to be competition among the frontends to get the best
possible frontend for LyX.
| In addition to easier maintenance, it will also add new abilities like the
| ability to define new insets with text files, and the ability to load
| various latex packages and set their parameters using a GUI dialog.
Insets will seldom need gui dialogs...and I already have plans for
creating new insets in .layout files.
I agree that a lot can be done to make everything easier and more
powerful, and we sould explore the possibillities..._but_ not _now_!,
now we want 1.1.6 to stabilize so that we can get a new release out
before christmas.
Lgb
