Re: [Texmacs-dev] major barrier to adoption

[Henri Lesourd]

Jeremy Henty wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:59:45PM +0100, Henri Lesourd wrote:
>
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> > What   happened  is   that  Joris   separated  completely   the  C++
> > GUI/widget-related code ...
> > [snip]
> > Now I  am implementing the Qt  port of the TeXmacs  GUI library, and
> > Massimiliano is tackling the task of porting the GUI to Mac OS.
> > [snip]
> > At  this point,  other contributors  will be  welcomed to  write any
> > other implementation of the GUI, using any toolkit they want.
> >    
>
> Thanks  for the  summary.   It's good  to  see such  good progress  on
> modernising the TeXmacs GUI.
>
>  
Since the user survey we did more than one
year ago, we knew that it *must* be done at
some point : we cannot spend our whole life
running a clumsy interface only under Linux.

For example, all my (math) students are
using laptops preloaded with Vista, or
are buying Macs. We guessed recently that
as a matter of fact, probably around 80%
of our potential user base is not working
under a flavor of UNIX, and since then,
the situation showed no sign of a real
change.

Thus, as once said the prophet : if the
mountain doesn't come to me... ;-)