On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 01:35 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> I now suggest it because of a new argument: it's more likely that {a
> user discovers this feature} than {a user who does not like this
> feature cannot figure out how to turn it off}.Definitely in favor of enabling it by default. LyX is a great software but it's full of deeply hidden features. As you know I've been doing some LyX evangelism for a couple of years now, and it's surprising how many people don't like LyX simply because they don't know about a certain feature that is readily available on "competitor" software. Spell checking is definitely one of this. Same speech for versioning systems, revisions, bibliography, instant preview, bookmarks, beamer, CAS, presentations and so on. I'm a LyX contributor and power-user, but still I discover new features every week. I do understand that we can't do much about several of these things, since the doc is there and says everything, but enabling spell-check by default is a really easy one. Making user's life easier is also the reason I implemented the search in the document options/LyX preferences (BTW: Vincent told me it'd go in 2.1), and I was also thinking about a "tip of the day" thing, and maybe a welcome dialog allowing the user to choose a document type and models. But I'm quite out of time, so right now they're just suggestions. My 2 cents. Ale
