gLyX to be included in gnome Workshop?

[Svante Signell <svante signell telia com>]

Hello all,

After talking to  to Miguel (gnome) and Lee (redhat) during the LinuxWorld
Conference, I'll try the gnome-list this time after recommendation.

The task is to find people interested in taking on a project to
develop a gtk-based front end to LyX.

Previous efforts:
Sending mail to redhat: They responded that the concentrate on the
OS and distribution.
Sending mail to LyX development list: The LyX development team are most
interested in developing the functionality tool itself, not the GUI.
Sending mail to gnome-workshop-list: Got two interesting replies, but
this list seems to be a very low traffic list, so nothing has happened
yet.

Motivation:
In need for a GPL'ed WYSYWYG word processor I would like to propose
LyX, a very nice front end to LaTeX. A recent TeX/LaTeX/pdfTeX/...
distribution is teTeX, now released in version 1.0.x: 
http://tug.org/tetex/

The only clue is that it currently only runs on top of the xforms
library, which is not distributed with source code.

A gtk version would be wonderful (gLyX). With a GPL'ed GUI toolkit LyX can
be distributed by RedHat, Caldera, Debian, Suse, etc. together with the
gnome environment. The people developing LyX are making it X-library
independent: http://www.devel.lyx.org/devel/gui-indep.html

A version running on top of QT is already available (kLyX), usable in
the KDE environment. However, if I'm correctly informed this version is
based on an older version of LyX.

OBSERVE:
Note that Lyx/LaTeX is to be seen as a complement to an integrated suite
of tools such as Word/Powerpoint/Excel. Even if an MS replacement
suite is developed, Latex is very IMPORTANT for example people writing
books, scientific journals, longer reports etc, where quality of
output is first priority. It will never replace tools making small brochures,
short reports containing mostly text and graphics. Remember, the group
of people needing such a tool as LyX is not as big as for desktop
publishing, but it is very influential in society. Therefore do not
neglect this market segment. Include it in the gnome workshop list!

Hoping for feedback/comments/discussion.

Svante Signell