Am 21.03.2014 um 20:56 schrieb Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de>:
> Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> No, it is an expert option without exaggerating. I bet 99% would just >> click on the answer the installer would set as default. > > Sure, but this is exactly what is good for them: If user settings of an > older major version exist, and if no user settings of the current major > version exist, then the old settings should be copied to the current major > version. Exactly. I cannot understand why something working on Linux without any problem - the in place upgrade of the .lyx user configuration - shouldn't work on Windows or Mac OS X. Therefor it has to be possible without problems to copy the user configuration from a previous LyX release on the very beginning of the configure process if it's detected. > The user does not need to understand anything about that. The > special case is if somebodx wants to use different user settings for > different versions on purpose. Only in this case he would need to change the > default. > > However, I agree with Jean-Marc that this should ideally not be done in the > installer, but at startup, but this is more difficult and for later. Yes, and it's done on Mac OS X this way. The first configure run with an fresh user preferences directory (no preferences present already) checks for existing preferences from previous releases and copies them if present. No installer code involved. Stephan
