I believe one cause of the problems we have with settings that get lost after
reconfigure is the following:
The settings are saved by Qt in a config file that is named from the LyX
version. Thus we get a new, empty config file after every version change, and
thus the toolbar changes etc. are lost.
Currently I have
juer...@whisper:~/lyx> ls ~/.config/LyX
LyX-1.6.0svn.conf LyX-1.6.2.conf LyX-1.6.3.conf LyX-1.6.4svn.conf
LyX-1.6.1svn.conf LyX-1.6.2svn.conf LyX-1.6.3svn.conf LyX-2.0.0svn.conf
I think it would make more sense to use the PACKAGE variable, i.e.
lyx[-version-suffix], as a config file name. Then session parameters would
persist over minor and even major version changes, and one still would have
separated configuration files for trunk and branch, if --with-version-suffix
is used (this is in line with the /.lyx vs. /.lyx-<version-suffix> directory
policy.
The attached patch does this change.
Abdel, is there any reason not to do this?
Jürgen
Index: src/version.cpp
===================================================================
--- src/version.cpp (Revision 30291)
+++ src/version.cpp (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -16,5 +16,8 @@
///
char const * lyx_release_date = LYX_DATE;
+/// Package identifier (lyx[-<version-suffix>])
+char const * lyx_package = PACKAGE;
+
/// This is the version information shown by 'lyx --version'
char const * lyx_version_info = VERSION_INFO;
Index: src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp
===================================================================
--- src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (Revision 30291)
+++ src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -702,12 +702,13 @@
GuiApplication::GuiApplication(int & argc, char ** argv)
- : QApplication(argc, argv), current_view_(0), d(new GuiApplication::Private)
+ : QApplication(argc, argv), current_view_(0),
+ d(new GuiApplication::Private)
{
QString app_name = "LyX";
QCoreApplication::setOrganizationName(app_name);
QCoreApplication::setOrganizationDomain("lyx.org");
- QCoreApplication::setApplicationName(app_name + "-" + lyx_version);
+ QCoreApplication::setApplicationName(lyx_package);
// Install translator for GUI elements.
installTranslator(&d->qt_trans_);
Index: src/version.h
===================================================================
--- src/version.h (Revision 30291)
+++ src/version.h (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
///
extern char const * lyx_release_date;
+/// Package identifier (lyx[-<version-suffix>])
+extern char const * lyx_package;
+
/// This is the version information shown by 'lyx -version'
extern char const * lyx_version_info;
