On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Angus Leeming wrote: AL> default in what sense? IMO, the only difference between the two AL> frontends in that AL> $ ./configure AL> will build the xforms frontend. In all other respects, they are / AL> should be equal.
That is what I mean by default. AL> Incidentally, in 1.4 you'll be able to run AL> $ ./configure --with-frontend='qt xforms' AL> to generate executables lyx-qt and lyx-xforms.) AL> AL> Of course, there exist bugs in the Qt frontend that don't exist in the AL> xforms frontend. And vice-versa. Judging from this mailing list, the AL> vast majority of users use the Qt frontend, so I'd guess that Qt bugs AL> will be spotted, and therefore squashed, rapidly. Indeed, if you look AL> at the status.13x file that is part of each 1.3.x bug-fix release, AL> you'll find many more Qt fixes than xforms ones. (I guess that's also AL> symptomatic of newer code.) I was just looking at http://www.devel.lyx.org/guii.php3 and it seems there that the xforms interface is more complete. I am pondering whether I should move from xforms to QT or not. I like xforms better, but if QT is getting more settings/options/etc then I should probably move to it.
