On 14 Jul 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Angus> On Friday 12 July 2002 4:07 am, John Levon wrote:
> >> What would people think of making this pref default to /off/
> >>
> >> (Remember it is really "additional exit confirmation" - you still
> >> get a cancel available if you haven't saved a document)
> >>
> >> regards john
>
> Angus> Why? I don't understand why you are trying to impose such
> Angus> /unnecessary/ stuff on the wider world. Defaults should /never/
> Angus> change without /ver/ good reason. This isn't one of them.
>
> I think lyx is suffering from a too-much-prefs syndrome. No reasonable
> GUI program that I know of asks for confirmation when there is no risk
> of data loss.

Pine -- okay so it's a TUI.  Maybe it's unreasonable as well.

> OTOH, if the pref is off by default, we might as well remove it :)

Sure, just so long as the clean up doesn't break the unsaved file
warning.

Allan. (ARRae)

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