Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Yes ,but my intention is to make things as easy as possible for the > user. And if we can do this easily with the installer why not. I know > that you disagree with me in this case but I have enough experiences > with users that ask me everytime the same: "program x is not > recognized." "Your installer miss support for program y." > But OK I will accept the current situation.
If I where you I would simply tell them that from now on the windows file associations are used, and that they may need to fix them. I would be surprised if users would not get used to that very quickly. >> Nope. The user should use Tools->Preferences. lyxrc.dist is only for >> settings made by the installer, e.g. OS specific settings. > > I know, but what do people do when they want to change the image viewer? > - They type in "Photoshop" in the viewer/editor field and save the > changes. But this doesn't work because Photoshop is unfortunately not in > the PATH system variable so that they have to specify the whole path to > photoshop.exe or modify the path entry in LyX's preferences (and not > lyxrc.dist - my mistake). That is a valid point, but I would prefer a different solution: Use a file dialog for specifying viewers, editors and converters. Advanced users would not need it and can directly type in the name of a program that is in the path, but others can use the file dialog to pick a suitable program. Georg
