William R. Buckley wrote:
It is unreasonable to expect the entire Windows using community to avoid a mechanism that is part of the Windows operating system. The proper solution, distasteful as it may be, is to implement code which facilitates this *hack* (I always think of a hack as a desirable gem of programming prowess, but I digress).
Well, it is an open-source project. Have at it! :-)
Otherwise, you have a product that does not really work in the Windows world.
I am firmly (if not happily) rooted in the Windows world, by dint partly of circumstance (my college is a Windows shop) and partly of investment in software over the years. At the same time, I have been a happy and contented LyX user since version 1.3.something. So apparently the inability to follow a link in the graphic selection dialog, however odd (given that the File -> Open dialog works fine), is not exactly crippling. It might be a tad inconvenient, but I have to work with four different flavors of Windows (XP Home, XP Pro, Server 2003 and Vista Home Premium), and it's a tad inconvenient coping with the inconsistencies of those. To say LyX "does not really work" because the graphics dialog doesn't follow LyX is an overstatement.
As Rich notes elsewhere, most FOSS software starts on Linux or another Unix variant and, if you're lucky, gets ported to Windows by the grace of some unpaid developers. If there is an occasional vicissitude in using a FOSS program on Windows, I can (and do) live with that.
/Paul
