Bo Peng schrieb:
As your installer has become half-official and named 'alternative
installer' in svn, why cannot you announce it as so and ask JMarc to
upload it to the lyx server?
I missed this fact. So what should be the name to announce it?
Do you really want to have it on the LyX-server? If yes, there are two issues:
- I ship the powerdot.layout and maintain it also because I often got requests for this, the last
time this week. I still think we should ship it with LyX, if you don't agree, I have to put it out
of my installer before it can be on the lyx-server.
- I removed the update view PDF button again for the following reason:
In the Windows world over 90% of the users use obe Reader as PDF-viewer, but this program permits
write access on opened files. So when the PDF is already opened in Acroread, it has to be closed
before it can be updated. We therefore call a script that does this. Unfortunately LyX doesn't allow
to call a script when the update view button is pressed. Joost's solution is a program running in
the background that checks every 500ms if the PDf has been updated. This is a bad solution but the
only possible.
I removed the update view button because the view PDF-button does both, viewing and update viewing
and the called script checks what has to be done.
I can reintroduce it but then have to use Joost's solution with the permanently running program in
the background, otherwise the update view button does nothing when it is pressed.
I'm unsure what to do because people complained about the permanently running program and also to my
previous solution where the button was there but inactive.
Ideas?
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Btw. Bo, my installer can now also be build via scons by executing the file
"build-all.nsh".
regards Uwe
