Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Peter" == Peter Kümmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
I have no idea why you think having just one frontend is some kind
of silver bullet.
Peter> Ever heard about "lowest common denominator"? When you use more
Peter> front ends you could only support these features which are
Peter> supported by all frontends (e.g. dockable toolbars: possible
Peter> with Qt4 but lyx doesn't support it).
This is typically something that could go in one frontend only.
Peter> I think it totally slows down the development progress.
.. in part because it forces one to think how a features should be
implemented. Not bad, IMO.
Peter> And nothing is more boring than using obsolete tools. (You
Peter> could force developers to do so only when they get your money,
Peter> but in a open source project this does not work.)
Something that is more boring for me is being forced to update my
distribution to get the version of the day. I use mandrake 10.1 here,
and I am not going to use it with a version of qt which is not the
same as what my KDE uses. Different people have different needs.
Come on! You manage to keep at least two branches of LyX up to date in
your system and you are bored with installing a library once? I really
think this not a real argument.
In any case, when LyX/Qt4 has more features that LyX/Qt3 we will see how
many users want to stay with LyX/Qt3 just because they cannot be
bothered to install a library. In any case, providing an alternative rpm
or a deb which contains libQtCore.so and libQtGui.so should not be too
difficult to do.
Abdel.
