-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/13 18:13, Liviu Andronic wrote: > 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.
In principal I agree with them - it is a feature which is counterproductive to writing as it interrupts the flow of ideas / writing. But I do *not* agree that it is useless and that nobody should have it. I also would not like it to be turned on for me as an "old" user, but I would simply switch it off. > > 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. :) Well - but it does not suit "new" users, who are (more and more) used to it by using word / libre office / ... . And just enabling it in newly created config files, would not change aything for "old" users and fulfill the request from "new" users and geared towards users migrating from word et Cheers, Rainer > > Liviu > - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRUBAhAAoJENvXNx4PUvmCGKEH+QGwkeQ33vhRyq7US6HP4Rwb YboaBkysv1/7eKBsq2FKjFH9kaIGA3AhgsJLo3LwsS9mcErXhsc3hQ0t0qbYEpr/ 7O4xqFmgzwlqcgl/APDeRFeqAOWN49rfmOp9zdso5CF4jEpWztoKUx7XEDrxXpf1 Ygw81F22YOtlB6P6p4hiXC9brWYSGeDxkbVJb+GJQxjot156J4o2Ueoj/1+g+sVr UuRVzvmOi1w0k0NoSkeDPtrH7qi1KrFP1YdAzHowvNsontPbJC6hKZLn3fa+ngjB RkCCVv8w5HrcvOgzq8QvLpXFngnsvaSLi1t7IXKbb6n2tyUUI91QXgvRpgTf1nw= =iBXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
