On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:40:21AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I have too say that I am not really in love with this menu, > > but I won't criticize it too hard, since I have nothing better to > > propose for now. I think that the fact that it appears and disappears > > contextually is not too bad if we make sure that the edit menu is > > always kept short enough so that people can spot such entries easily > > (and of course, this is a pretty good reason for moving Preference to > > Tools). > > I don't agree here. Table and math are even more integrated with LyX > than the spellchecker, yet the the spellchecker gets greyed out but > math and tables get removed.
This argument would work if the rationale for the context-sensitive area was "stuff that isn't integrated as much as other stuff". But iti is not and it never was. > furthermore don't think 'weird stuff' in the third menu level of > Edit->math needs to make sense for people not using math at all. But > removing math is not ok. Ideally there wouldn't even be a third level; deep hierarchies suck. But I do not have any specific suggestions to help[1] so I won't complain about it. john [1] one possibility would be to move such esoteric stuff to /only/ the right-click context menu ... -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.
