On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Claudio Wilmanns <wilma...@uni-wuppertal.de> wrote: > Dear Lyx-developer community, > > I request the following feature for an upcoming release on Lyx: > Hide cursor when user edits text, unhide on mouse movement
Do you mean the cursor or the mouse pointer? BH > Reason: > I find it very distracting that the cursor is always visible. In particular > when I place the cursor in my text to correct a misspelled word or > add/remove/change words or a sentence. The cursor remains at the position on > top of my text making it difficult to read. > The simple solution is to hide the cursor on text editing, and unhide it > when the user moves the mouse. > > I can only tell for the Mac/Cocoa platform that this is not difficult to > implement bt I can't tell for other platforms. I am also not famiiar with > the Lyx-Sourcecode so I don't know what's necessary to do to get a consitent > behaviour on all platforms. But I would really like to see this feature in > the near future in Lyx 1.6.x+ and 2.x+. > > Comments are highly appreciated. > > Thanks for your consideration > Claudio Wilmanns > > Dipl.-Ing. Kommunikationstechnologie Druck > M.Sc. Druck- und Medientechnologie > > Bergische Universität Wuppertal > Fachbereich E - Elektrotechnik, Informationstechnik, Medientechnik > Rainer-Gruenter-Str. FD.2.09 > 42119 Wuppertal > > Telefon: +49-202-439-1169 > Telefax: +49-202-439-1144 > > <wilma...@uni-wuppertal.de> > >
