On Fri, 4 May 2001, Michael Koziarski wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:15:27PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > This message was added because somebody felt it was irritant to be
> > unable to add double space without reason :) I do not know whether we
> > are supposed to add a configure option for each and every LyX feature,
> > though.
> >
> > JMarc
>
> This is my pet hate as well. After a few years of using MS word and
> typing e-mails in emacs I've grown used to just tapping the space bar
> twice to begin a sentence. I'd love to see it in the preferences
> dialog.
I think we should sit back a moment and ask ourselves if there really is
any point in showing this message at all. I find it a distraction and
while it'd be easy to add YAP (Yet Another Preference) it seems to me this
should be a message like the splash document -- shown the first time and
never seen again. At least for any given session.
If we just keep saying:
"Such-and-such is annoying. Let's add a preference to disable it."
then maybe such-and-such shouldn't exist at all or is at least not well
thought out. Otherwise we get preference bloat and you'll either end up
with so many options people just won't look at it because it's become too
complex or there will be so many options people on this list won't be able
to remember what can't and can't be configured.
Allan. (ARRae)
P.S. Don't suggest we configure everything to counter the second situation
because that'll just trigger the first situation.
