rgheck wrote:
On 12/08/2009 08:57 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> If you want to introduce such support for doc, rtf, etc, then you
should do it the way we handle > dia, xfig, and the like. We should
check for a "real" viewer, such as OpenOffice, Word, or whatever,
and if we don't find one then it just defaults to "auto".
What is the advantage? I don't have Word on my machine so when I
execute a doc file, again the default viewer will be opened. It is in
this case Wordpad which is available on all Windows system.
As I said in my note, your patch leads to problems on every platform
except Windows. On Linux, for example, LyX tries to execute file.rtf,
which leads to an error message. The use of "auto" does not lead to
such problems, though it leads to absolutely nothing on any platform
other than Windows.
Are you sure of that? On my KDE system this is properly handled and I
believe on Gnome too. Or am I missing something?
The correct solution is to detect the viewer and default to "auto".
But then, when your default viewer changes, LyX will have to run
configure again to acknowledge the change; this looks wrong to me. The
desktop knows better than LyX what viewer to use.
[off topic]
A user can get infected (though not the whole system) even if she
doesn't have admin permissions.
I was wondering, you seem to often refer the user as "she". Is it
because you think of your wife? :-)
I though the general English rule was to use the masculine, as in French...
Abdel.
