>>>>> "Charles" == Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Part of KDE has been ported to OSX and some are working on a Charles> Windows Port but it has not brought us any new developpers. Charles> Maybe some new users. But the classical people ready to help Charles> with an Open Source project (IT students, Hobbyist Charles> programmers, Scientist) are using Linux or one of the Charles> different BSD. Mac or Windows users are free riders. I think Mac OS X has changed part of this equation. Charles> The Emacs-style interface is showing its age and rather weird Charles> for Windows transfuges used to MsWord. Emacs-style in which sense? Charles> LyX integrates quite badly with the rest of my desktop and Charles> cutting&pasting is still primitive. Cutting and pasting is very bad indeed. Charles> For, post 1.4.0, I think that the main goal should be to move Charles> LyX towards a plugin based application. It would lower the Charles> barrier level to scratch ones itches and map to the LateX Charles> model with its zillion extra packages. If some people have Charles> energy, it would be fun to see how hard it would be to Charles> recreate a LyX editor using the KoText library. I am not sure how a plugin based application would solve the LaTeX support model, actually. JMarc
