Angus Leeming <leeming <at> lyx.org> writes: > > Andreas Klostermann wrote: > > I tried the gtk port from CVS... crashes every now and then.... > > rather now than > > then though... for example when trying to invoke the document > > preferences dialog (or layout I think it's called in the qt port), > > or when entering German Umlauts, and and and .... > > > > Is there somebody still working on the port? > > I'd like to help with the effort, but I have far too less experience > > to take out these crashing bugs... > > Huang Ying has been the guy doing almost all the work. The rest of us > keep checking every now and again that it still compiles but have > little time to invest in writing the code for the remaining dialogs. > > If you are interested, then you are more than welcome. > > Many of the crashing bugs in the gtk frontend appear to be due to it's > lack of robustness when faced with problems. Eg, I get crashes when > trying to load a document with ususual fonts or when trying to open > the 'Tabular Create' dialog because the glade files can't be found. > > These may, or may not be hard to fix. Don't know. I *do* know that > writing gtk code for the remaining dialogs is pretty straightforward > and can certainly offer much advice and encouragement there. > > So.... > > Angus > > ps, does anyone know Huang Ying's email address? If so, could they add > an entry to CREDITS. Thanks. > > A. >
Hmmm.. robustness when facing problems... isn't that also something of a problem with the frontend independence of lyx as a whole? Maybe some details of that controller/view model aren't followed through correctly. I will have to read a lot in the sources for at least a week before I can do anything useful with the code. One of the reasons I am interested in the GTK Port is, that it would certainly work nicer on windows (look at gimp 2, completely native interface, if you install wimp, and a great GUI without problems...). Also gtk has more language bindings, afaik, especially a great Python binding that works with Glade and Windows, too. I really need to "make install" to make anything work, but the document preferences crash was not solved this way! Thanks for replying, Andreas Klostermann
