On 2011-06-13 11.55, "Stephan Witt" <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote:
>Am 12.06.2011 um 09:13 schrieb Anders Ekberg: > >> On 2011-06-12 02.36, "Uwe Stöhr" <uwesto...@web.de> wrote: >> >>> Am 11.06.2011 20:48, schrieb William Harter: >>> >>>> Help, please! >>>> Just following tutorial after downloading Lyx to I-Mac OS 10.6. Having >>>> show-stopping problems with tutorial document involving template >>>>issues. >>>> >>>> 1. Attempting to follow instruction: >>>> >>>> Open a new file with File->New from Template. Select letter.lyx >>>> >>>> Result: Empty template folder. >>> >>> Then our MacOS X package for LyX is broken. You must at least be able >>>to >>> see the template files that >>> come with LyX. >> >> The Templates are now in the LyX application bundle ( under >> Contents/Resources/templates ). >> As a temporary work-around you can copy them from there to >> ~/Library/Application Support/LyX/templates >> But this should be fixed. > >Yes. See ticket: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6861 > >I tried to find a API to add a link to the finder left bar of the native >file open dialog. >The LyX way of doing this with Qt's own dialog was to add a sidebar url >to the open dialogs - >but this isn't a good solution either, the Qt-version of the file open >dialog is far too >Mac-agnostic. > >One possible workaround would be to copy the files example and template >files to >~/Library/Application Support/LyX with reconfigure when missing. But as >mentioned >in ticket #6861 this is debatable behavior too. Though admittedly not perfect it at least has the benefit of actually working ;-) So since the current status is that no templates can be found (if the user is not used to fiddle around in application bundles) and the open dialogue points to this folder, would it not be a reasonable solution until something better is found? /Anders
