Gour wrote:
Helge Hafting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Not really. The win32 version of lyx does not in any way make it a
more "serious" solution. More accessible of course, but no
more serious.
Who said that?
Me? Marc?
Sorry, seems I messed up the quotation. Look at earlier messages. . .
Now, if we're making wishes - scratch the bloated gtk and
go for fltk. Lightweight they way it should be, and it has
nice stuff like unicode and antialiasing anyway.
I just moved kde --> gnome and do not understand what would be the
advantage of fltk over gtk and/or Qt?
The advantage is that it is smaller. Bot qt and gtk are big and
bloated. It makes a difference for those of us who runs neither
kde nor gnome on the desktop. (Logging in to icewm takes 3 seconds,
looking at someone logging in to kde is apalling. Half a minute?) And
that is on a fast 2GHz machine, there are people using much older
stuff than that. I remember running lyx on a pentium-90. It took
some time to start, but would scroll through the userguide with
lightning speed. No other wordprocessor came close, editing was
_fast_.
It probably make little differnce to someone who has he toolkit loaded
already (because the window manager or other app uses it)
Still, I really liked the way lyx 1.3 starts in less than a second. Lyx 1.4
needs 5 seconds to start, even with no document and debugging turned
off.
Multi-platform?
I have no idea - but the existing qt port is multiplatform so a port
to another toolkit doesn't have to be.
I was thinking about that in the time when I proposed wxWidgets as a one
multi-platform kit, but today I'm more for GTK+.
However, I also understand that we won't see GTK and/or GNOME port soon,
but nobody can prevent me dreaming :-)
The same goes for fltk of course. Just a dream, there are more
important goals.
Helge Hafting
