From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [lasgout...@lyx.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:27 AM
>I would revert the definition: "a buffer is hidden if it is internally >opened in LyX, but not visible in any window" (rewritten into proper >English) Sounds good. >> To make things really simple, what if only "visible" were supported or only >> "all"? Do you think a user would want to apply LFUNs to only hidden >> documents? >Maybe to close them or to make them visible. Currently buffer-forall rehides each hidden buffer after the LFUN is applied. Should it not do that? >Maybe you should keep visible/hidden/all, if only for symmetry. OK. >BTW, an idea for a next patch: in the document list of the View menu, >files opened in another window appear as hidden. This is wrong of >course. They should probably be in a different submenu "other windows". >However, in the 'no tabs' mac scenario, this does not make sense at all, >since all files should be displayed and selecting one with the view menu >should just give focus to the proper window. >Supporting both tabs and multiple windows is a UX nightmare in my opinion. Agreed. Scott
