While trying to fix #6786 (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6786), I
found out
that the naming of Flex insets is very weird.
Most insets use for InsetLayout a simple and predictable naming:
Name:type.
"Name" is the inset name used in the lyx file (Note, Branch...), and
type is
a subtype of choice (branch1, greyedout...). The inset layout code is
done in
such a way that, if the inset lqyout Note:yellow does not exist but
Note exists,
it will be used as a fallback.
Now if we look at real names in our layouts, grep tolds us (I removed
the
hardcoded ones), we find the list at the end of the message.
So I know I am coming after the battle here, but I wonder what is the
need of
adding (or not) the Custom: prefix to the inset name. The inset name
is going to be
shown in the interface, and having this prefix in menus is rather ugly
IMO.
But in fact, we can chose _not_ to have it, and everything will work
in the
same way. The orthodox way of doing it would have been to have
something like
InsetLayout Flex:Noun
LyxType charstyle
...
Then this gets written in the lyx file as
\begin_inset Flex Noun
...
I think that we should before 2.0 (but my time for doing it is going
to be
scarce unfortunately) change our layouts and our LyX format to enforce
these rules. This will IMO make the menus look better and make sure that
everything is coherent. In the future, it will help us to have a
single notion
of name and type for insets, which can be used for InsetLayout, but also
for naming inset dialogs and for the LyX file format. This will be
helpful
IMO if we ever switch to xml.
The plan would be:
* layout2layout: for all insets layouts which name is not in the
hardcoded list
(Note, Branch...), including Custom:, CharStyle:, and Element:,
remove the existing prefix
and replace it with Flex:
* lyx2lyx: do the same, but do not add Flex: :)
* change description of flex-insert in LyXAction.cpp. It seems to me
that it is completely
wrong
* check documentation.
Sorry if this message is too long (again!)
JMarc
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