[Rkward-devel] To the new subscribers

[Detlef Steuer]

Hello!

Personally IŽm not too much of a friend of the Qt Toolkit.
Trolltech just puts in too much.
 
Same goes with KDE. Working towards the goal of integration with Koffice 
nevertheless is very tempting.

There is a project going to integrate R with gnumeric, I think.

My dream for Rkward would be an application with a usability like SPSS,
with (look and feel and) features configurable using a config file. So you can
tailor a graphical interface to R for every customer easily.  
(config file defines what is in the menu, a bit like in vim.)


As customers tend to be "platform independent", i.e. not Linuxers, I would
therefore like a platform independent approach.
Qt is available for Unix and Windows, a bit of platform independence, too.
 (Mac I donŽt know) 

So, if you think the coders of both projects can cooperate, your decision
should imho be based on the availability of more manpower.

I can not offer much time to code myself for such a project, but you could
count on me testing :-)

detlef

On 21-Nov-2002 Thomas.Friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> First of all, welcome to rkward-devel. Since the archives seem to 
> be a bit slow, I'll post again the question about how RKWard 
> should be continued. I'd appreciate if you could post your opinion 
> on this.
> Basically, the choice is between remaining a KDE/Qt-project and 
> fusioning with the obveRsive-project (which would then switch to 
> the FOX toolkit).
> The first has the advantage, that a really seamless integration with 
> KOffice(-components) will be a lot easier to achieve, and in general, 
> RKWard will have the look and feel of KDE. I'd say however, that 
> this would only make sense, if at least two more Qt/KDE/C++-
> coders join the project (of course statisticians, R-experts and 
> documentation-writers are also needed).
> The second alternative has the advantage, that it will be cross-
> platform compatible and that it would already have three developers 
> working on it.
> So the question is, whether some of you could imagine contributing 
> code to RKWard (and if so, how much), and also of course, which 
> alternative you would prefer.
> Of course, whichever the decision may be, we might at a later point 
> of time still decide to join with obveRsive or to revive RKWard, but 
> I'd be interested in reaching a decision within about the next week, 
> so the actual work on the application can continue as soon as 
> possible.
> Thanks!
> 
> Thomas
> 
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