Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
and the other frontends are not portable.
xforms no, gtk maybe...
We really have to reconsider (again) the frontend issue.
- Why do we still have xforms? It won't survive the unicode patch anyway.
=> Let's remove it! Now!
- Has gtk ever worked reliably? (Estimated) answer: No.
- Do we have the man power to make the gtk frontend a true competitor
to the qt frontend? Answer: No.
- Would we have the man power to maintain the gtk frontend if it were
in a stable state? Still the answer is: No.
- What is left? qt3 and qt4. Anything else? No.
Conclusion: In the foreseeable future, only qt3 and qt4 will work
reliably. I think we have to take this fact into account, especially
when we evaluate Abdel's work (and ask him to fix all kinds of frontends
for which he is not responsible).
Michael
