mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Daniele Pighin <address@hidden>]

Alle 14:23, sabato 8 febbraio 2003, Kasper Souren ha scritto:

> I would say that a bit of advocacy will suffice.
> If your favourite distribution doesn't come with TeXmacs you just ask the
> producers to ship it with the next release. Also mentioning TeXmacs in a
> conversation about writing scientific papers can help creating a broader
> userbase.

You're turning around the node.
Of course there are other ways texmacs's user base can be enlarged, still it 
is undeniable that it would spread much faster if it was (or could be, which 
is not the same) integrated into larger, widely spread projects such as Gnome 
or Kde.

> What do you exactly mean with integrated?

Mainly two things:

- drag and drop (very useful and time saving feature)
- look and feel consistency (the same interface for browsing files that you 
have in all the other applications you use, a similar behaviour for similar 
tasks...; having to learn the use of a program takes less than having to 
learn both the program _and_ the interface, which is a separate issue).

> My girlfriend (computer-illiterate) uses KDE as her desktop environment and
> it's no problem for her to use Open Office or AMSN, programs with
> completely different UI's.

I didn't say it is impossible to do without it, I just say it would be better 
with it.
Further more, as all the major distributions are working hard to provide 
coherent and omogeneous desktop environments, it is likely that they will 
sooner or later stop providing non-standardized packages.
If it is not a great issue, as there will always be some packager 
contributing 
them for many distributions, it would be far better if texmacs was *part* of 
a key-component (kde, gnome) of major distributions, and as such was 
provided, and especially _supportd_, along with them.

Daniele