On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 09:49:50PM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote: > And while the LyX community discusses the pros and cons of various > frontends, wonders whether there is a need to maintain multiple > frontends and whether a GUII is a good thing (even though it may not > longer serve its original purpose), while the LyX community implements a > bunch of configure scripts to make LyX run on various *nix platforms and > on Windows ... the world keeps on turning and, suddenly, someone > reimplements LyX as a full-functioning, good-looking (source code _and_ > GUI) platform independent Java program (with minimal effort)!
Impossible for performance reasons. Even today, and quite likely not tomorrow. Andre'