Stephen Harris wrote: > Yes, I looked at fltk and it is intended to be cross-platform. > I've also seen some great screenshots and fltk was used for > (and a variation is used for making special effects in movies) > porting flpsed using Minsys rather than Cygwin on Windows. > The result was as good as the original on Linux. I know very > little about the other approaches, so I'm not comparing to GTK+
Yes, fltk is a very nice little toolkit. In fact, it's the successor to the XForms library that we do use in one of our frontends. However, before any eager soul jumps on this frontend bandwagon, I'd like to introduce a note of caution and suggest that you really, really shouldn't create yet another frontend to LyX. Time is limited, there are only so many of us and another frontend would just be more to maintain for no real benefit. I think we'd all like to see improved core functionality in future releases. The last three or four years have seen increased prettiness and stability and *much* nicer code but little real increase in what LyX can actually do. Now that we have something that's at least reasonably modern looking, let's turn the thing into the world beater we always hoped it would be. Regards, Angus
