> > What we need, I'd think, is therefore a format number in the > > preferences file, so we can ignore the existing one, or something, if > > it's out of date. I hope we don't need prefs2prefs!? > > I am not sure pref2pref would be so horrible as a solution. It would > solve many problems with upgrades.
in case somebody wants to implement it. lazy solution would be your idea with version file, which in case of change just trigger for the first time some popup window with the suggestion of removing .lyx/reconfiguring. pavel
