natively import Word files would be an impressive achievement. It would enable people to work with both word and latex- using collaborators. I'd be careful not to add a bunch of dependencies on that move. KDE is getting to a point where any tiny app is interconnected with a huge infrastructure. It just doesn't work in isolation anymore. I run xmonad, but wanted to have okular and dolphin. Well, they bring so much baggage and those deps. assume so many other things are running, that life outside the KDE desktop became impossible. I had to remove all kde traces to get a working system again. Don't get me wrong, they are doing beautiful things, many design decisions are outstanding, and they are not afraid of change. But they are moving away from the unix mentality.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Rob Oakes <rob.oa...@oak-tree.us> wrote: > Dear LyX Developers, > > On the invitation of Claudia Ruach, one of the community managers for KDE, > I submitted a paper to their upcoming conference in San Francisco (April 4 > and 5th). (I've helped with a newsletter redesign that they did a few months > ago, and she asked if I'd like to attend and present on anything. Naturally, > I wanted to talk about LyX.) My presentation will cover the major open > source publishing and typesetting technologies, how they work together, and > ways in which they might be improved. > > While there, I would have a chance to reach out to some of the other > projects and see if anyone is interested in collaborating on common > features. > > We might, for example, be interested in adapting the DOC/DOCX filters that > KOffice has created and using them to natively import Word files. Or, we > might want to partner with Sigil for libraries that could natively create > ePub files from LyX (we are so close to being able to create ePubs that I > think it's something we should look at, but that is for another post). > > We might also be able to recruit students for Google Summer of Code > projects, if the deadlines haven't passed, yet. > > Please let me know if this has any appeal to the team, and perhaps we could > draw up plans. (Also, any input on what the presentation could cover would > also be appreciated.) > > Cheers, > > Rob > > PS, on another note, I like the new splash screen in the SVN version. With > the Oxygen icons and the cleaned up toolbar, it makes LyX appeal really > professional (Screenshot below.) > > -- Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Research scientist, Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada
