On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> At the time there was fierce opposition from "old-school" users >> (including several main devels) to making this default. And that's OK >> as long as the feature is easily accessible, which it currently isn't. >> Not really. > > If the feature is enabled by default (i.e. new config files) but if the > option is not present in an existing lyx config file, the feature is added > as disabled, one can differentiate between old users (who already have an > existing conf file) and new users who don't, where therefore the feature is > enabled. This could make make all camps happy? > I sincerely doubt this. The old-school users are unhappy with LyX shipping with continuous spellchecking enabled by default. This covers new installs, too, so tinkering with config files as you suggest isn't really a solution.
If I understand correctly, from their perspective continuous spellchecking is a useless feature that shouldn't exist in the first place; but since it has gotten implemented in LyX, the least is to have it disabled by default. So as it stands we have a compromise. :) Liviu
