On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 12:08 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > My take on this is that we should > * have one *official* frontend, Qt, after 1.4 is out. Makes sense, although whether distributors package it like that is up to them.
> * send the gnome port to the Attic now. Yes. If one ever wants to refer to it it will still be findable. Right now it's just confusing to anyone who is new to the repository. > * leave the gtk port alone. Nobody is *required* to work on it. If John > Spray wants to work on it, then who am I to tell him not to? Indeed :-) I think that Michael was saying that the gtk frontend was causing extra work for translators. If that is causing a problem, I would accept leaving the gtk frontend untranslated until it reaches a state of usability. > Basically, maintaining a working frontend is minimal effort, so I don't > think that it matters if someone wants to have a pet project porting to > his/her favourite toolkit. I would agree with this: getting rid of the GUI independent stuff would be a lot of work, for no massive gain. Since it's there, it might as well stay to make LyX agile in the future as deployed desktop environments come and go. John
