Den 21. jan. 2017 09:35, skrev Jürgen Spitzmüller:
It has been brought up repeatedly, and I've looked into it several
times. The problem is that, astonishingly, there is no straightforward
way to add custom items to Qt's "places" widget (the "directory panel
on the left").
Well, is it possible to add/change a pushbutton on the top instead?
There is already "Documents" which uselessly takes me to the home
folder, and "Templates" that gives me the folder with LyX templates.
The "Templates" button is useful, it gives me all the templates
distributed with LyX.
Could the "Document" button be changed so it brings up
"~/.lyx/templates/" instead of just "~/"? And perhaps with a caption
like "Private templates" instead of "Documents"?
The un-changeable directory panel on the left already has the home
folder ready, so no need to have a button for that.
Newbies don't notice, but as soon as you use LyX so much that you create
your own template documents, this becomes a problem. The proper place
for a private template is ~/.lyx/templates (at least on linux), but it
is only accessible by typing the path.
Last time I recruited a LyX user, I provided templates for commonly used
document types here. It was kind of painful explaining that the
templates we just put in their correct place was so hard to reach
afterwards.
"Save As" is even worse. Clicking "Templates" make one think that this
is how you save a template for future use. But it brings up
/usr/share/lyx/templates/ where users don't have write access. (And they
should not have either.) It'd be much better if "Save As..."->Templates
gave us ~/.lyx/templates/ There is no need to bring up the LyX template
folder in the save dialog.
Helge Hafting
