On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 12/21/2012 03:11 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>>

>> Should I make (four) buttons for the table toolbar? I'm not sure if
>> this feature is worth adding 4 buttons for. I don't see why a user
>> would prefer to use a button instead of a keyboard shortcut. I think
>> the only reason to do this would be to let people know that the
>> function is there in case they want to find and use the keyboard
>> shortcut. I have no opinion on this. Either way though, I am curious
>> as to whether we have svg (or other) originals of the current buttons
>> or do we only have the png's that are in lib/images/ ?
>>
> I think we have pngs. There's a long-standing idea to make svgs.
>
> Some people do prefer toolbars, so if there's room, you might make icons.
> (Or see if there are some we can borrow.)

I will make the toolbar buttons.

>
>
>> I just found the following lines in stdcontext.inc and stdmenus.inc:
>> # Item "Swap Rows|S" "inset-modify tabular swap-row" # currently broken
>> # Item "Swap Columns|w" "inset-modify tabular swap-column" # currently
>> broken
>>
>> I think that this is what I am trying to implement.
>> It looks like it goes back to 2002, introduced by this commit: df03e5fc
>> Should I use the name "move-row" or "swap-row"? I think "move-row" is
>> more user friendly, but I think "swap-row" is more technically
>> correct.
>
> It appears that this is currently implemented only for mathed. (See
> InsetMathGrid.) I do not know if it works there, or if it is still broken.
> If it does the same thing as what you want, then you might try to make it
> work similarly.

I will look into this.

>> The only thing that is not working (that I know of) is change
>> tracking. But this is true for a lot of tabular features so does it
>> make sense to commit this anyway and then file a bug report for all of
>> them?
>>
> Adding to the problems here doesn't seem so bad.

OK.

Thanks,

Scott

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