lyx-1.4pre4

[Leuven, E.]

dear all, 

i downloaded (and compiled) 1.4pre4. it looks and feels good: not like the 
unstable and slow beast it was some time ago.

for now (i just started using it for serious stuff) i have some small remarks. 
i hope you find them useful, if not: just ignore.

thanks for making lyx better still!

regards, edwin.


bug:

* on document open only buffernew & fileopen are enabled on the toolbar
 
small comments (feature requests):

* the icons are extremely ugly (and very inconsistent in style)
* toolbar visibility should be configurable through gui
* it would be very nice if command sequences could be assigned their own icons 
on the toolbar

misc thoughts:

* only show the standard toolbar, and can i suggest the layout below for the 
standard toolbar (i think that things like spelling, and pdf export should be 
there)

Toolbar "standard" "Standard"
        Layouts
        Item "New document" "buffer-new"
        Item "Open document" "file-open"
        Item "Save document" "buffer-write"
        Item "Print document" "dialog-show print"
        Separator
        Item "Print preview" "buffer-view dvi"
        Item "Refresh print preview" "buffer-update dvi"
        Separator
        Item "Export as PDF" "buffer-export pdf"
        Separator
        Item "Check spelling" "dialog-show spellchecker"
        Separator
        Item "Cut" "cut"
        Item "Copy" "copy"
        Item "Paste" "paste"
        Separator
        Item "Undo" "undo"
        Item "Redo" "redo"
        Separator
        Item "Insert graphics" "dialog-show-new-inset graphics"
        Item "Insert table" "tabular-insert"
        Item "Insert math" "math-mode"
        Separator
        Item "Text style" "dialog-show character"
        Item "Paragraph settings" "layout-paragraph"
        Separator
        Item "Find and replace" "dialog-show findreplace"
        Separator
        Item "Help" "help-open UserGuide"
End


* the startup doc could perhaps mention that the toolbar can be configured (and 
where)

* i don't know how often people use tabulars/figures outside floats (i never 
do), but i have the following in the standard toolbar:

For table/tabulars:

command-sequence float-insert table; self-insert [table caption here]; 
break-paragraph ;ert-insert; self-insert \centering; char-forward; 
tabular-insert 5 5 ;up

For graphs:

command-sequence float-insert figure; self-insert [figure caption here]; 
break-paragraph ;ert-insert; self-insert \centering; char-forward; 
dialog-show-new-inset graphics