On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 04:50:57PM +0000, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 07.08.2018, 12:29 -0400 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> > 2. When I first went to Inset > Field > User name, I wasn't sure > > whether > > my computer user name, or my LyX user name would show up. When I go > > to > > the inset settings, it is clear because it is in the category "LyX > > Preferences Entry", but just from the menus, it was not clear to me. > > We > > could change the menu entry to "LyX user name" and "LyX user email", > > but > > unless someone also had the same uncertainty that I did, this is > > probably a "wontfix". > > I don't like "LyX user name", but I am open for good suggestions. In > any case, I wanted to differentiate it from "Author", which can differ. I don't have a better suggestion. > > 3. I find the category name "All Keyboard Shortcuts" inconsistent > > with > > the other category names. For example, there is "LyX Preferences > > Entry", > > not "All LyX Preferences Entry". I think the intent was to > > differentiate > > the category from the closely related "Last Assigned Keyboard > > Shortcut" > > (which I don't actually know what this one does). Perhaps we could > > change "All Keyboard Shortcuts" to "Keyboard Shortcuts"? > > There are two info types here: one only displays the last shortcut in > the list of potentially multiple shortcuts assigned to a function, the > other displays the whole list. > > There is no such thing for preferences entries. > > So "All keyboard shortcuts" means "All shortcuts for the function > selected", not "display all keyboard shortcuts in the dialog". I think > removing the "all" does not make it more transparent. I see, makes sense. > > 4. If I do Insert > Field > Other, the "immediate apply" checkbox is > > enabled. I wonder if it should only be enabled if we are editing an > > inset (rather than creating a new one)? > > It's only enabled if you had it enabled. We save the state for all > dialogs. I don't think we should make an exception here. I meant "enabled" in the Qt sense. I did not mean "checked". > > 5. What is the purpose of having the "Unknown" option in the combo > > box? > > I imagine it has a use, but would it make sense to internally allow > > the > > combo box to be set to that value, but just not provide it as an > > option > > in the interface? I guess what I'm asking is: would a user ever want > > to > > manually set the value to "Unknown"? > > No. I am not sure, though, that we can add a hidden item to the combo. Fair enough. > > 6. I get the following warning: > > frontends/qt4/Menus.cpp (763): Menu warning: menu entries "Index > > Entry|d" and "Field|d" share the same shortcut. > > OK, this comes from one of the dynamic menu parts. You only get it if > you have an index. That's why I missed it. Having to deal with detecting and fixing those is annoying. I wish there were some automatic way to catch these conflicts. > > 7. Are we concerned about any security/privacy issues related to this > > feature? This item is not really relevant to the recent changes, > > since > > some (all?) of this information was already available. I don't have > > any > > particular concern here, but since we are exposing e.g. LyX user > > name, > > LyX user email, and LyX preferences, I'm curious if someone can think > > of > > a privacy issue. The biggest "security threat" I could think of is if > > I'm helping someone who sends me a .lyx file and asks me to send them > > the corresponding .pdf, perhaps I don't expect that my "LyX user > > name" > > (which I think defaults to my computer's user name) could be > > contained. > > I suppose that knowing one's computer name makes it easier to e.g. > > SSH > > into their box. This is not a personal concern of mine, and I expose > > my > > computer user name and host name all over the place. I was just > > attempting to think of what might be a concern to other LyX users. > > I think due to this security issue we do not set the user name > automatically. Users need to deliberately set it. I don't think it is > related to the computer name. Ah thanks for the correction. Thanks for the quick reply! Scott
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