On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:53:02AM -0400, Kuba Ober wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:15:49AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > > Whilst this is true, it would only make real sense to keep with a worse > > > menu layout if we expect the total number of current users to forever > > > exceed the total number of new users plus the total number of users who > > > switch. > > Larry Marso wrote: > > Gadzooks! The greatest good for the greatest number? Strict > > utilitarianism! > > If it weren't for the utilitarian value of LyX, I'd be happy with vi editing > .tex files like I used to.
Er, that's utilitarianism, as in John Stuart Mill, not Websters. See: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/milljs.htm > A tiny bit of advice from a lesson I had to learn over and over: agility and > adaptability will make you feel better, work better and live better. > > Once you get into that mode of thinking, menu changes won't bother you > anymore. And they shouldn't. Menu changes don't bother me, per se. But I offered them as an example of continuing differences of opinion about priorities. > After some time, you get used to things and they become plain boring. Exactly! Things have turned out pretty much following the course that was clear to any observer a couple of years ago. For myself and a (now pretty much dead) klatch of LyX users with different ambitions for the software years ago, very little we cared about has changed.
