Angus Leeming wrote:
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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.
I agree. Currently, I report bugs and test patches. When 1.4
gets out, I'll see if I can add support for some of the stuff I like,
such as
\dotfill and multicols. :-)
Helge Hafting
