Hello,On the other hand, if one never opens the Pandora's box, one can
First of all I want to beg your pardon. When I sent my message I didn't want to open TeXmacs GUI Pandora's box.
It would solve some problems. But by just reading what has been said inIn this respect, the problem is that I'm not so sure
that simple solutions (e.g., using a standard widget
set like Qt, GTK, etc.) would really solve the problem.
After reading all the messages in this thread, I'm beginning to thing that using an standard toolkit will solve many GUI problems, although I'm not an expert and I could be completely wrong.
I agree that this is the real problem (i.e. : many things are not standard).To summarize, the fact that the interface **looks** old
fashioned is not the real problem IMHO. The real problem
is that it **IS** really hard to use for non-technically
inclined people
And ex-Windows new Linux users. One of the guys I was speaking in my previous message is a recent switcher and he hate TeXmacs interface. Probably the main reason was that many things in TeXmacs are not standard.
I think that TeXmacs has the same problem that had Apple with Mac OS 8 and 9. They could have tried to "modernise" the OS but the number of problems were so big that they had to bite the bullet and start almost from zero to build Mac OS X.We are not exactly in this situation with TeXmacs, because you don't need
Maybe we need a full time programer to solve all (or, at least, as many as possible) these problems.I am such a full time programmer :-). (in fact, I do half-time TeXmacs, half-time
I wonder how much that would cost and if we were able to get all that money in a reasonable period of time.This, I don't know. As for me, I will wait a little bit, then start
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