Angus Leeming wrote:
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.
Sorry, my bad. The program does indeed install for all users. The
preferences and user-specific copies of the bind, layout etc. folders
show up in the individual user's docs & settings rather than the all
users docs and settings, but that's fine; it's a one-time tweak to reset
preferences if I log in with a different id, and clearly you can't put
those folders under all users on a truly multi-user machine.
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?
It is when (a) you've told MiKTeX to prompt when an uninstalled package
is needed, (b) you've got a lot of uninstalled packages and (c) you're
installing a new beta every day or so. :-)
Might not be so bad for the stable version, I suppose.
-- Paul
