[tex-live] removing belleek from TeXLive

[Victor Ivrii]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Although I can understand why you make that last statement,
>> Manuel, I am not convinced that it is true.  Seamonkey (for
>> example) has an extremely large number of options, some
>> of them available only through an "Advanced" button, yet
>> it seems to be usable without difficulty by a large number
>> of people on multiple platforms.
>
> Everyone is free to provide improved guis for tlmgr. It is in fact quite easy as the gui simply calls the action subs, so hacking a new gui is easy, so why *nobody* steps forward to do it?


Actually for MacOSX there is TeXLive Utility which is a native MacOSX
frontend for tlmgr albeit it does not have all the options CLI has. I
cannot recall anyone making big splashes on MacOSX mailing list
because of this. Probably people there believe that the person who
wants Advanced options should be sufficiently advanced to be able to
use CLI.



> I would even offer the actual implementation if someone can send be detailed drawings of the Gui and all its windows/dialogs etc ....
>
> So please ui-designers step forward!


GUI design varies from OS to OS and a native interface is better than
the generic one.


Victor

>
> Norbert
>



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