On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v...@lyx.org> wrote: > Yet another question. > > If you normally would reconfigure LyX, you get a message like "Running > configure..." in the status bar. Then you know you have to wait. > > What do you expect on Mac if you don't have any window open ? Now, > there is no way of telling that configure is running, right ?
Right -- there's no way to tell it's reconfiguring if no window is open. However, even if a window is open, the "Reloading configuration ..." message doesn't show up until *after* the "The system has been reconfigured" message has popped up. That's a bug. > Do you expect some sort of message popping up ? Do you expect a > message box on your screen (as you probably don't want to do any work > as you don't even have a view open). Do you expect a sheet to slide > down from your menu bar ? Normally, I'd expect some form of progress indicator -- a spinner or an indefinite progress bar, for example -- to appear, possibly in the frontmost window if there is one, or possibly in its own dialog. (Sheets only slide down from windows, not the menu bar, and they are supposed to be for modal dialogs that pertain to a particular window, like save or print; they wouldn't be appropriate here.) Perhaps Stephan should weigh in here.... BH
