On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 09:07:35AM +1300, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > On 21/11/2016 6:34 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> As an occasional user of branches, when I deactivate a branch I expect the > state of insets in the branch to be left in their current state, some open, > some closed, as the case may be. When I reactivate the branch I expect to > recover that previous state. This seems to me the *minimal* assumption for > LyX to make -- there was, presumably, good reason for the insets to be in > that particular configuration. LyX should respect that when the branch is > reactivated. Thanks for the feedback, Günter and Andrew. I propose two questions for going forward: (1) Do others agree that LyX should be consistent and treat activating/deactivating branches from right-clicking on a branch inset the same as activating from Document Settings? (2) Which behavior should be changed? If the answer to (1) is "it is not inconsistent to treat those situations differently", then we can just leave things as they are and we don't need to change anything. If the answer is that we should change one or the other to be consistent, then we need to debate (2). For (2), the code for document settings explicitly makes a point to open/close the activated/deactivated branches, and it has been this way for a very long time, from what I see. So the burden would be on us to argue that changing it makes considerably more sense than changing the right-click activate/deactivate. I'm not sure how to proceed in this case. If other developers agree, we could ask on lyx-users to see what they think. I think this is a perfect situation for taking a poll of users. Scott
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