Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Angus Leeming wrote:
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
I know now why: LyX's reconfiguration is indeed done twice, once by
the installer and once if it is started the first time.
That's correct. The installer updates the contents of c:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx. When you run lyx yourself it updates the
contents of C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\lyx.
There is a difference between system settings and an individual user's
preferences...
Two suggestions:
In the wonderful world of Windows, it's common (though far from
universal) for an installer to give the user two choices: install for
all users; or install for just the logged in user. The 1.3.6pre
installer currently does the latter.
No it doesn't. There's a checkbox that gives you just this choice.
Install for all users would work
the same way but do under Documents and Settings\All Users what is
currently done under Documents and Settings\Angus. There's no need to
mess with this now, but it would be a nice feature in the final release.
Maybe. Let's get the thing working first and then think about refining it.
(Incidentally, and this may be more information than you want, there's
a value to installing under All Users on a single-user system. Those of
us joined at the hip with office networks typically have two ids, the
network id and a local one for use in emergencies, where emergency =
network id/pw gets screwed up and the primary domain controller is
unavailable. Putting LyX under All Users would mean that my preferences
and configuration info would be available under both ids, without my
having to copy them from one subtree of Docs and Prefs to another.)
The other suggestion is more of a question: Would it be
possible/practical to have the installer ask whether the user wants to
have the installer copy the system settings (including default
preferences) to the user's local directory as well? The user will still
need to set individual preferences, but that would avoid scanning the
LaTeX installation twice (I think). This might not be useful for shared
PCs where an administrator installs LyX for multiple users with
different package access, but I'm guessing that's a small minority of
machines.
Maybe, but really is the pain that bad?
Angus
