Re: gLyX to be included in gnome Workshop?

[HpG <gisler ntb ch>]

Svante Signell wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> --


Hi Svante and all

I find a gLyx version of Lyx whould be very, very good for GNOME.
I am using Lyx on a regular basis, and sure, it whould be great to
have a version which works seamlessly togehter with GNOME.
Unfortunately, I am not very experienced in programming at all, so
I am not shure that I can help with anything. I think of myself, that 
I am gifted a little bit with graphics <grin>, so if I can help
with icons or layout-questions, let me know, it whould be an honor
for me to help.

Cheers
Hanspeter