Michael Schmitt wrote: > I still do not give up hope that LyX 1.4 will eventually become > reality.
As someone noted a wee while ago, the changes in functionality from 1.3 to 1.4 are small. The long lead time does not mean that users are missing out. > Optional tasks > > - Frontend: > - Controller simplications (AL) > - ControlDocument ControlPreamble ControlPrint ControlSearch > ControlSendto C ontrolSpellchecker ControlForks ControlPrefs Thes are definitely optional, in that the current code works fine and the user will see no change should the code be changed. I'll just plug away as the motivation grabs me. More important, and something that should definitely be addressed IMO is the fact that our interface with the outside world has changed. (All those lfun name changes.) Thi means that external programs like pybliographer will most definitely NOT work with LyX 1.4 as things stand now. Do we need an lfun2lfun converter? Two 'wish-list' things that I would like: * Refactor the Preview code so that it sits confortably with InsetExternal (RenderPreview, actually.) I know what I'd like to see anyway... * I think that I would like to give the External inset dialogs the ability to rotate, resize and crop their data. This involves additions to qt/QExternal* and xforms/FormExternal* only. That would make InsetExternal an almost-drop-in replacement for InsetGraphics. (Wouldn't handle "subfigure".) Jean-Marc stated that he thought that this would be the wrong way to go but I'd like to try it out anyway. The alternative of one inset with several different dialogs (for graphics-type insets and for 'others') is a refinement IMO and one that may or may not be needed. Note that both of these 'wish list' items concern a part of LyX that almost nobody currently uses. I certainly don't think that their implementation (or not) should hold-up any future release date. -- Angus
