[Rkward-devel] project future

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi!

First of all, I'd like to thank you all for your interest in RKWard. Your 
subscriptions have indicated to me, that there is indeed need for a project 
like RKWard - yet I have decided to give up RKWard in favor for another 
project called obveRsive ( http://obversive.sf.net ). The most important 
reason for this decision is, that obversive already has a larger pool of 
developers (currently three, as opposed to one for RKWard).
Obversive is similar in concept, but uses the FOX-toolkit for development, the 
advantage being that it is (L)GPLed and freely available in recent versions 
on both *n*x and windows (while Qt-support for windows seems not exactly 
whole-hearted).
Either way, if continue to be interested in R-frontend development, I'd like 
to invite you over to obversive, and I'd be happy to continue to hear 
comments, suggestions or contributions in any other form.
Concerning RKWard itself, I think that this project will not necessarily have 
to be given up for good. Having an application that integrates nicely with 
KDE seems like a goal worth pursuing to me, but the priority clearly is to 
get one project of this sort to a useful state, before it will make sense to 
work on more polished variants tailored to a specific platform/desktop.
If you would like to work on RKWard yourself, please do so however. In this 
case I'd also be happy to answer questions of all sorts about the existent 
code, and would probably also contribute in actual development.

Thomas