Thanks, Bennett -- both for being receptive in principle and for offering the reins to make the Qt patch a regular part of the LyX/Mac distribution.
I agree with Jean-Marc that we wouldn't want to lose your help as maintainer, and I promise I would be a poor replacement. (For one thing, I have an old PPC Mac that is unfortunately no longer my primary machine -- I've been told it produces working Universal binaries but I can't guarantee that will continue to be the case.) > I wouldn't object on principle, but to be honest, I'm very likely to > forget to apply this patch when I upgrade to new versions of Qt, > with predictable bad consequences. I wouldn't, for example, want to > re-release a version of LyX simply because I forgot to patch Qt, and > then have hundreds of Mac users think they need to download it again > just so that 10 people -- people who are probably savvy enough to > compile their own -- can get this hidden, specialized feature. And > I wouldn't want to try to explain to standard users why they don't > need to download this "updated" version. Totally understandable. In the tarball of the patch I posted on the wiki, I included a script that I used to apply the patch and build both Qt and LyX. It's pretty rough (no error checking, etc.) but I could fix it up a bit, and/or add a section to the INSTALL.MacOSX file. If we went this route, we might want to check the patch into SVN so it becomes part of the LyX source distribution -- though I don't see an obvious place to put it that would avoid cluttering things. > Given this, I guess my sense is that this is so specialized that > users who want it can take advantage of OSS to roll their own, as > you have done thus far. But I'm just guessing. Do we have any clear > sense how many Mac users would use this (and what proportion this > would be out of the total Mac user base)? You may be right, and that would be fine with me. I haven't monitored the download stats, but I've only ever heard from a handful of people about this issue, so it might not be worth going out of our way to support it. (To anyone reading this on the archives: feel free to chime in on the wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/LyXmodifierKeys if this issue is important to you.) Per Jean-Marc's suggestion: > What would be nice is to get trolltech to do something about it... I agree with that, too. For what it's worth, I logged the suggestion in the Trolltech Task Tracker with a link to this thread and the wiki page. Will report back if I hear anything from them. cheers, -j
