On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Cris Fuhrman <fuhrmana...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2017 15:50, "Scott Kostyshak" <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > > Thanks for this idea, Cris. Would this be only to see how many people > are using LyX or for something in addition to that? Every time I think > about something like that, I challenge myself and ask: "Why do I want to > know how many people use LyX?" and my answer is always just that I would > be curious. Since I don't think it would lead to any improvement in LyX, > my train of thought stops there. > > > GA (as far as I understand it) can track usage within any app. For > example, each time a user selects New, the app can "click" a link via GA > that signifies New. It's up to the developer to determine granularity of > usage stats. In theory you could collect preference data at every > closing/applying of the preference dialogue (it could be arguments to a > tracking URL). I'm not an expert in how best to do it, but it's "usage > data" that many apps already collect. GA is but a means to that end. There > are other options: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1554062/1168342 > This would be very interesting to add. The information collected could be helpful to determine priorities from a development side and would certainly satisfy *my* curiosity. However, I would want to see an option in the installation process to disable "anonymous usage statistics" from being collected. At work, I can imagine some folks getting upset by an application phoning home, even anonymously.
