Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-31 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/31/2017 08:21 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > El 31.10.2017 a las 03:05, Richard Heck escribió: > >>> I realized that Linux's monolithic kernel is a problem. Every device >>> driver needs to be part of the kernel. >> >> This is a confusion. Linux supports kernel modules, which are the exact >> Linux e

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 31.10.2017 a las 03:05, Richard Heck escribió: I realized that Linux's monolithic kernel is a problem. Every device driver needs to be part of the kernel. This is a confusion. Linux supports kernel modules, which are the exact Linux equivalent of a device driver, and which can be installed

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
On 31.10.2017 14:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote: That's curious. I didn't have any problems with Xreader and gender radio buttons in PDF-form.lyx. - open the PDF of PDF-form.lyx with the latest Xreader 1.4.4. - then go to sec. 2.3 and you can see that you cannot select "female". - go to sec. 2.1 to s

Re: configure.py regression in RC1 compared to beta

2017-10-31 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 09:19:49AM +, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 30.10.2017 um 08:31 schrieb Scott Kostyshak : > > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 09:10:23PM +, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> El 29.10.2017 a las 16:52, Jürgen Spitzmüller escribió: > >> > >>> Note that I am traveling. So if it works on t

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/30/2017 07:29 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: I tried the PDF-form.lyx experiment. The default PDF viewer on my system (Xreader) seemed to handle most of the form features. I also tried Xreader. There are several bugs in all PDF programs under Linux. For me the main bug is that I cannot use radio

Re: Initial view of document (master)

2017-10-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 31 octobre 2017 11:52:57 GMT+01:00, Pavel Sanda a écrit : >Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Yes, this is needed in some cases. I see 3 types of fixes >> 1. Convince qt that there is no need to update a whole window when >the status bar changes >> 2. Audit the uses of Buffer::message and use somet

Re: Initial view of document (master)

2017-10-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Yes, this is needed in some cases. I see 3 types of fixed > 1. Convince qt that there is no need to update a whole window when the status > bar changes > 2. Audit the uses of Buffer::message and use something else when possible. > 3. Change row painting code so that i

Re: configure.py regression in RC1 compared to beta

2017-10-31 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 30.10.2017 um 08:31 schrieb Scott Kostyshak : > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 09:10:23PM +, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> El 29.10.2017 a las 16:52, Jürgen Spitzmüller escribió: >> >>> Note that I am traveling. So if it works on the Mac, someone will have >>> to cherry-pick it. >> >> I might also not b