Congratulations and applause to the developers! I love the new LyX
1.6. I thought 1.5.6 was already awesome and I am still playing with
the many many improvements of 1.6.
I'm using the mac version with OS X 10.5.5.
Three small problems I've had:
1. Exiting from Full Screen; when I get out of full screen the
"collapse" button (not sure what it is called; I mean the little wide
one that hides some menus and toolbars) that lives on the upper right
of frames/windows in mac OS X disappears. I can't then recover it in
any way... maximizing, minimizing, resizing doesn't revive it. This
seems like a bug.
2. Another problem is related to the toolbars. If I customize which
ones show and their position my choices do not seem to consistently
stick across sessions. I'm not sure what I have to do to get some
preferred set and position of toolbars saved as a default for new files.
It seems like LyX makes some attempts to remember these things, but
after a while (after opening and closing sessions or opening different
files) it forgets, or reverts to positions used in other files. I
can't figure out any consistent pattern yet.
Specifically, if I start with no file open. Then remove the View/
Update toolbar. Set the toolbar sizes to small. Then close that frame.
Then when I open a new frame it looks just like that. But if I load
some previous file it may go back to the old look. Hence, I concluded
it is doing things file specifically. But no: if you close the frame
and go back to another file that you had tweaked the toolbars
differently it will now forget. Or if you start a new file you may get
Sorry if I am not describing this very well, but part of it is that it
really seems to behave erratically from my point of view, or with an
odd rule.
Note: I do have the "Allow saving/restoring of window layouts and
geometry" checked in my preferences. I am also using LyX with the tab
option enabled. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
3. I have "load open files from last session" enabled in my
preferences. However, the contrast in the behavior of the following
two operations is surely not intended:
-start a new session with no files open
-open file foo.lyx
-close this file using CMD-W or selecting close from File menu
-close LyX using CMD-Q
-open LyX again: you will NOT have foo.lyx loaded, as expected
alternatively...
-start a new session with no files open
-open file foo.lyx
-this time: close this file clicking on the upper left button of the
frame (the one with the "x" mark)
-close LyX using CMD-Q
-open LyX again: you WILL have foo.lyx loaded
Both operations really should give the same result, since in the
second case, before you shutdown LyX you can verify that no file is
open, e.g. go to View and it reports "No Documents Open!" so this
isn't a matter of an open buffer without a window (as I am used to
having in Emacs).
Thanks!
-Ivan
