On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:41:14AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > For the last few weeks, lyx has been the most unstable that I've ever > seen it, and I've been using the development branch full time since > Summer 1996. The crashexs have become regular, and I've now lost data
this is certainly the case. However, I would suggest if you don't want crashes, then don't use an unstable version. lyx 1.1.6fix3 is much more stable (though far from perfect). Again, don't do production work with an unreleased product ! I'm positive the team won't let 1.2.0 out until the (large number of) major bugs are fixed. Fixing some usability things (random example: the enforced distinction between table cell and inset-inside-table-cell) won't happen any time soon, but they are less important. > Usability is also dropping. In particular, the equation editor is more > awkward to navigate than in the past. It has become necessary to > actually think about a path to get into the denominator of a large > equation, for example. Greek characters take extra keytrokes. > I understand that most of this comes from changes to make interfaces > cleaner and improve maintainability, but the hit on usability has been > massive. Andre re-wrote mathed so it /was/ maintainable again. This is obviously a good thing. I'm sure specific helpful bug reports (such as Michael provides) would be appreciated by Andre. regards john -- "Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons."
