Pavel Sanda <sanda <at> lyx.org> writes: > i'm not sure i understand what are you trying to do here, but if its possibility > to get context menu for a hyperlink which launches viewer for file:// or http:// > web address i can provide not complicated patch for lyx. > > it was part of lyx months back, but then we get nervous thats its security > issue and reverted it. > pavel
If I were you I might be inclined to reintroduce it (as well as a generic context menu for hyperlinks if it hasn't already made its way into lyx 2). I can see your point about security but the version control command that I've subverted allows equally arbitrary code to be executed using a lyx function. Perhaps a disabled by default option to enable it for links. Shame to remove a useful feature (at least for me) while leaving the security problem in there anyway. I'd rather not patch it as I presume I would have to do that for every version with a different patch. The problem with most software as an electronic lab book for simulations is getting the links to the files to work in a nice way. Word is as per usual horrible, Onenote is a bit of an abortion (embeds things like excel items as IMAGES rendering itself pointless) and none of the other options I came across worked very well at all. Lyx of course lets me do all the things you need for a lab book (equations, tables, images etc) but the file linking is poor. Drag and drop/C&P for images is really nice, but not for generic files. That's where that dropper script comes in. And launching the hyperlinks doesn't really work in pdf readers (that really is for good reason) so lyx needs to do that too, hence that hacky script to launch them. Propper support of that from lyx would, of course, be better. Chris Lingwood
