Dear Joel,

On 2016-04-26, Joel Kulesza wrote:

> I recently submitted a couple tickets (one
><http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10105> I believe a bug, another
><http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10106> an enhancement request) related to
> table cell lines.  Before posting another I wanted to poll the list
> regarding whether the "set all lines" behavior is as-expected.

> For example, if I insert a table, select all cells, and click "set all
> lines" I would expect only the double hline to disappear.  If I instead
> first "unset all lines" and then "set all lines," I would expect only a
> simple grid of single lines.

> While I agree that it is LaTeX-like to consider "all lines" with double
> horizontal delimiters, this type of table formatting isn't very common (nor
> are double vertical delimiters) and also isn't intuitive based on the
> button's icon (I would expect a double-lined grid to be shown on the icon).

> As such, I would propose changing the table to mimic the icon (and a more
> common styling, in my experience).

> I'd be interested to hear the community's thoughts.

I stubled over this problem, too, recently and agree with the proposal.

Günter

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