On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Rob Lahaye wrote: > Another thought: > > Let's get rid of the gs/mono/color choice all together. Only implement the > "Do not display" toggle in the prefs/graph dialogs; the rest should be dealt > with automagically.
Automagic is the worst kind of magic. I'm sure John must have a "Good UI" reference for that. André will flame you and I'll just suggest that if you want magic you should read a Harry Potter story (they're really good BTW). > Would such a simplification make people unhappy? > All I can think of is that *forcing* mono/gs display is used by users who have > a color graph, but run LyX on a 386 with monochrome display. But I thought such > species are extinct already :). Maybe you didn't read what Garst does? FWIW, just 'cos it's in colour doesn't mean it will be printed in colour as some people like their LyX display to look a lot like their printouts (especially useful for foils if you get the width of the LyX window just right). In addition an image with zillions of colours may make your 16bit or 8bit (these are still common) display unreadable as they swallow most of your colour palette. > BTW: Either gs or color, will display my color graph in color on the LyX canvas. > So that's not working properly. But don't fix; let's get rid of it ;). Sounds like a good way to generate some more user feedback. Allan. (ARRae)
