On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:49:59PM +0200, Michael Gerz wrote:
> Garst R. Reese wrote:
> 
> >In anycase, I dislike the 1.4.1 menubar so much that I will stay with 
> >1.3.7
> 
> Garst, I am afraid agree with you.
> 
> IMHO the biggest mistake was to drop the "Format" menu. EVERY text 
> editing tool but LyX has such a menu and the average user expects it to 
> contain "Character...", "Paragraph...", and "Document..." entries. In 
> LyX, you find formatting options in both "Edit" and "Document" 
> ("Edit>Text Style", "Edit>Paragraph Settings", "Document>Settings" 
> etc.). IMHO this is counter-intuitive and also 'pollutes' the "Edit" 
> menu. [...]

Yes, same feeling here.

What were the reasons we did this?

- Martin
 

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