Cengiz Gunay wrote: > > Dear lyx-devel, > > I just tried the 1.4.0cvs version, and as a user of LyX since 6 > years, I want to point out some problems I had with it. > > The pop-up warning dialog that comes at time of LaTeX generation is > really counter-productive. Here is my story: I have a document which > is composed of around 10 files. The top-level document has a > different class than others, because the pieces are actually > included from other top-level files with different classes. > > Anyway, I got 10 popup dialogs saying "this document has a different > class than the parent class" every time I want to see or update the > DVI output. Furthermore, there is no meaning for these dialogs, > because it doesn't even allow me to cancel the process. It's just an > annoying popup. > > I believe having a popup which only interrupts an automatic process > and waits for mouse click/keyboard is not very useful. I would > suggest either: > > 1) Having a concept of LyX log file/window similar to the LaTeX log > concept.
Actually, this is a *really* nice idea. And it is trivially easy to display the contents of the file once it has been generated. > 2) Having little LyX-Warning boxes embedded in the document, similar > to the TeXError boxes that appear after compilation. These don't exist anymore. > The point I make is also relevant to better handle the preprocessing > done by LyX. I pointed this out earlier > (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-devel&m=107265398302691&w=2), > in a proposal to fix the bug #1474 > (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474). Personally, I prefer your option 1. I don't think that we should second guess the user. -- Angus
