Re: lilypad for windows

[Arno Waschk]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:17:11 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Op zondag 18-07-2010 om 19:25 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Carl
> Sorensen:
>
> > Why do we want to "roll our own" when we already have  
> > LilyPondTool/Jedit,
> > and Frescobaldi?
>
> We already roll our own: we have lilypad-macos, lilypad-windows and
> we still ship exactly nothing for linux (we could have the installer
> print a message: and now please run: apt-get install frescobaldi).
>
> Dropping these does not seem to be a viable solution, spending more
> time on these is also not attractive.
>
> The best thing would be to have others develop exactly what we want
> to ship in our installers, but I don't see that yet.
>
> > I think the answers are 1) Jedit is not very lightweight, and we want
> > something lightweight; and 2) Frescobaldi is specific to KDE and we  
> > want to
> > develop something that is cross-platform.

i used to use Frescobaldi under Windows via andlinux...

> LilyPondTool is a great and powerful tool -- but I don't think jedit is
> a good choice for novice users.  Besides its heaviness it's a complex
> and featureful/scary editor and it also looks even more of an ugly
> monster on your desktop than openoffice does.
>
> > Is it possible to separate the KDE4 stuff from Frescobaldi, and use  
> > pygtk
> > instead?  Perhaps we could use the same core functionality.
>
> That would be nice.
>
> Jan.


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