Martin Vermeer wrote: > OK, but let's then make sure gtk is minimally useable before that. We > shouldn't lose this investment (in GUI-I, I mean).
What is the important legacy of the GUII project? IMO it is the clean and understandable code that has, eventually, been written. It will be trivial to maintain the LyX frontend code because it's easy to see what it does. That's not the case with the 13x dialogs, f.ex. The code in frontends/controllers baffled everybody except me :) Things are much clearer now. Transparent, even. So, whilst multiple possible frontends is somehow "nice", it's not very important IMO. I'm actually quite hopeful about the ongoing health of this project. Not because it has a vibrant community of active developers; it doesn't. However, the vibrant community of semi-retired developers that it does have have, over the years, turned obfuscated line noise into coherent code. The fact that you yourself have squashed so many bugs recently is actually testement to the soundness of André's inset-unification design. I wonder if we'll ever see it completed? -- Angus
