>>>>> "larry" == larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> You conveniently forget that the Qt interface brought us a native >> Mac OS X interface (and perfectly GPL) with little or no effort. larry> Of course, I did not forget -- "conveniently" or otherwise -- larry> over two years ago about the Mac OSX QT interface. larry> IIRC, it didn't exist. ;-) OK, maybe my comment was not correctly worded. This native qt/aqua port was made possible by the big effort on making sure that LyX does not depend on X11 directly. This requires some time, actually... Concerning porting to qt directly instead of going the GUI-I way: actually, this has been tried and the result was named 'klyx'. So we had a real world occasion to see where the momentum was, and klyx lost. Why? I am not sure exactly, but I feel that this was an effort on having immediate visible 'sexy' results and that this is not enough to make a program go forward. We chose a way which is not the easiest one, asking to users to be patient while some underground work is going on, and it seems that we did not piss all of them off ... JMarc
