Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:49AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Richard Heck wrote:
Andre Poenitz wrote:
I admit we haven't discussed it for a few years, mainly because last
time we reached consensus that it would be Real Kool(tm) to have but
nobody implemented it.
Did anyone try?
I played a bit with the drawing side once. Should not be terribly difficult.
Were there problems?
I think the main problem is that people are not prepared to switch to a
new mental model WRT text selection. We also need proper support for
inset merging and splitting.
Some people want to be able to select part of that inset, and part of
that subsequent inset without having to think in terms of insets entity.
I understand this POV but I disagree with it. For example, a change is a
change, I don't want to half select it together with the next change,
this use case is I think pretty rare; but if I want to undo part of a
deletion for example, that should be possible. This last use case
involves inset splitting which we don't support yet.
Could you believe that we were discussing this very thing in front of a
beer with JMarc and Edwin yesterday?
You are having meetings behind our backs?
Not really, we only talked 5 minutes or so about LyX (but JMarc managed
to tell us a bit about you guys). As we are all three in Paris, we just
thought it was a good idea to put a face on our respective names :-)
Abdel.
