On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, John Levon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:10:28PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote:
>
> > In the end of the bug discussion, I also suggested a button on the toolbar
> > that indicates that lyx has child processes running, and when you click on
> > this you'll open the view->child processes dialog..
>
> You can already do this. We don't want it by default (I want to remove
> forks dialog altogether, lyx is not top and it is not ps)
>
It feels like we're misunderstanding each other here... What can
you already do? Have latex start in the background, so that lyx doesn't
"freeze"?
About removing the process functionality in general:
How do you (and others) think lyx should behave when another
process/program started by lyx misbehaves?
- Is it acceptable that lyx waits (frozen) for it?
- Use a timeout after a certain time?
I think the user at least should be informed that lyx is waiting
for another process to finish, which I guess you get from the
status-line, but maybe the text there could be more clear by
changing from
"LaTeX run number 1"
to something like
"Waiting for: LaTeX run number 1 to finish".
/C
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Design http://www.md.kth.se
