"R. Lahaye" wrote: > > Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > "R. Lahaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > | R. Lahaye wrote: > > | > > > | > I run LyX on a machine that has no spellings checker installed! > > | > The following happens when I start LyX from an xterminal: > > | > > | There are more spelling checher nuissances: > > | > > | When I [Close] the spelling checker, I always get a message > > | dialog that says: > > | > > | "Spell checking completed!" > > | xxxx words checked > > | [OK] > > | > > | This message dialog is a pain! Let me guess that nobody > > | ever really reads the number of words checked, but everybody > > | hits that [OK] button as quick as possible. > > > > Wrong. A lot of people use this _just_ to get the number of words > > checked. > > Are you telling me that we are supposed to use the spellingchecker for > finding out the number of words in the document? > > If so, that makes it even worse! Users of the spellingchecker become > unhappy, because the stupid word-count pops up everytime at the end; > and the word-count-users are annoyed, because they have to spell-check > first before getting to the number of words!
Not that bad, if you need a word count (they won't take more than 1500 words...) then you probably find spell checking useful as well. Getting rid of the popup would be nice though. Short-lived popups are very bad GUI design because they have to be dismissed in some way. Small amounts of information (like a word count) can be displayed in the minibuffer instead. No need to dismiss it - it disappears whenever the minibuffer is re-used for something else. Helge Hafting
