On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:07:45PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > I see. You know it would be really nice if pressing the button when
> > there is no selection actually inserted a sum instead of just adding
> > another "environment". In fact, it would be sane ...
>
> Which sum, which "environment"?
Mmm good point, I wasn't thinking straight. I blame the fact that those
icons are confusing. Although I try it with \Pi and it doesn't seem to
work entirely properly anyway...
> So far I am opting for "correctness" which even allows a resonable clean
> implementation of the "advanced" stuff, and I am trying to smooth the
> really bad cases of counter-intuitive UI (while maintaining some kind of
> backwards compatiblility with 1.1.6). Not exactly trivial.
Of course. It's a difficult job.
> Putting everything in an inset certainly is something people are not used
> to from other word processors but at least I got used to it. So if you want
> to help improve things, name annoyances one by one not "correctness should
> be less important than UI".
Well this is one. You yourself admit that there doesn't seem to be a use
for non-idempotent font environments. Why can we not do what you do in
this cases - change it, and see who complains about it ?
Leaving it like it is blocks this from the natural UI interpretation,
i.e. a combo box.
> > For now it can use the "hardcoded" one (ControlMath.C) with all its
> > stupid orderings and the like
>
> Note that _none_ of the dialog stuff is my doing.
Never said it was ;)
Like a lot of the problems in LyX, most stuff is historical baggage that
nobody has ever really reviewed in recent times. It is inevitable that
we will unearth of all sorts of things and think "wtf ???"
regards
john
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