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2001-11-03 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:13:34PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > An average of three segfault reports per week? We haven't seen that > in ages. inserting a row in a table crashes lyx. It's horribly unstable currently. > I've hinted that something similar to what you experienced with Mathed > is li

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2001-11-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:47:35PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > Now, some may argue that LyX is currently _not_ a stable system. > > It obviously isn't. An average of three segfault reports per week? We haven't seen that in ages. > > So another action

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2001-11-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:47:35PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > AFA stability is concerned, any change to a stable system will cause a > temporary instability. This is a fact. Yes. But as you said "temporary". > Many people view temporary instability as a transition state -- for > example, from a

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2001-11-01 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Allan Rae wrote: ^^^ Nice. You waited till Friday. Maybe that rotten patch has been in there for 3 years, and we have all been sleeping, but it's still rotten, and you know it. You are just being pisseirriterende. I propose we leave it in there, because then we have an ex

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2001-11-01 Thread Allan Rae
On 30 Oct 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Allan> Can someone explain to me in words of one syllable or less why > Allan> it is a good thing not to deselect after someone has issued a > Allan> copied command? > > The real question is t

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2001-10-31 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 30-Oct-2001 Allan Rae wrote: > > >> A more difficult question, but I would favour unsurprising behaviour. That means > >> that what looks like a selection is a selection (one reason that I think > >> having to ctrl-c something before pasting into a

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2001-10-30 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:24:04AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I think you are deliberately trying to obscure the issue to hide the > fact that you introduced a stupid feature. go JMarc ! You're a tiger ! john -- "If the software that a company produces isn't reliable, adding a bunch

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2001-10-30 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 30-Oct-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I think you are deliberately trying to obscure the issue to hide the > fact that you introduced a stupid feature. #:O) and it's only Tuesday this will be a really great friday! Jürgen -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-.

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2001-10-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 30-Oct-2001 Allan Rae wrote: >> A more difficult question, but I would favour unsurprising behaviour. That means >> that what looks like a selection is a selection (one reason that I think >> having to ctrl-c something before pasting into an xterm is weird). > > Then we'll need to fix things

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2001-10-29 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:09:42PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > Then we'll need to fix things so paste checks to see if a selection > currently exists and force a copy into the copy buffer before > attempting to paste. /me nods > Actually, we should be supporting the XDND protocol like KDE and GNO

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2001-10-29 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:33:16PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > So, should the selection remain a selection or just remain > > highlighted? For example suppose said user presses the spacebar > > should the selection be replaced a space or should a space

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2001-10-29 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:33:16PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > So, should the selection remain a selection or just remain > highlighted? For example suppose said user presses the spacebar > should the selection be replaced a space or should a space be inserted > where ever the cursor was? And wha

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2001-10-29 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:19:09AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > Can someone explain to me in words of one syllable or less why it is a > > good thing not to deselect after someone has issued a copied command? > > A user will forget exactly what he copied[

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2001-10-29 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:19:09AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > Can someone explain to me in words of one syllable or less why it is a > good thing not to deselect after someone has issued a copied command? A user will forget exactly what he copied[1]; a quick visual reminder of what just got copie

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2001-10-29 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > > > SuperDOS (er... I mean Windows) apps the lot of them. We should file > > bug reports to Microsoft to fix their buggy implementation ;-) > > FYI Mozilla and JBuilder are both cross platform, and run

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2001-10-29 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:40:55AM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > I'll also bet you 10 kroner that KDE/Qt does it the same way. you're rich ! well maybe just right. the qt frontend is going to differ from the workarea here unless we at least make it a (default ?) option. My vote is f

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2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > SuperDOS (er... I mean Windows) apps the lot of them. We should file > bug reports to Microsoft to fix their buggy implementation ;-) FYI Mozilla and JBuilder are both cross platform, and runs natively on Linux, Windows, and what not. I would think Java a

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2001-10-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > > > If the selection is left selected and you don't paste the copy but > > instead press any key the selection will be replaced by that key. > > Maybe this is what Ricardo wanted but it might be a big s

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2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > If the selection is left selected and you don't paste the copy but > instead press any key the selection will be replaced by that key. > Maybe this is what Ricardo wanted but it might be a big surprise for > everyone else -- especially if you'd scrolled som

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2001-10-28 Thread Allan Rae
Don't you hate it when you think of another good point or three within seconds of sending an email. sigh. If the selection is left selected and you don't paste the copy but instead press any key the selection will be replaced by that key. Maybe this is what Ricardo wanted but it might be a big

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2001-10-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 26-Oct-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > It seems that this behaviour has been introduced in 0.11.53: > > - Made "Cancel" and "Copy" correctly cancel selections when mark-on (ARRae) > > > > So Allan, we are all waiting for your justification. B

Re: [ricardof@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-10-26 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 26-Oct-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > It seems that this behaviour has been introduced in 0.11.53: > - Made "Cancel" and "Copy" correctly cancel selections when mark-on (ARRae) > > So Allan, we are all waiting for your justification. And this on a friday, hmm if I were you Allan, ...