Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-09 Thread Helge Hafting
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 04:39:51PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > If you want to warn the user that the document is not the clean version on > disk, perhaps a warning popup `The file is already open '. The user is > now out of danger... Well, not a dialog box - we don't want to force the user

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-06 Thread Stephen Cornell
On 4 Aug 2007, at 20:14, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:52:46PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:04:06PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: This causes a lot of frustration t

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:52:46PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:04:06PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > > > > >>> This causes a lot of frustration to me, because often I only

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-04 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:19:18AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > FYI: > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2543 I don't think this is the same bug. The bug that gets me worked up is, that after writing a one line formula, trying to append a second line by ctrl-enter will spread out pieces o

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-03 Thread Richard Heck
FYI: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2543 Richard Heck wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:04:06PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: This causes a lot of frustration to me,

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-03 Thread Richard Heck
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:04:06PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: This causes a lot of frustration to me, because often I only decide that an equation has to be multi-line wh

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:04:06PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > > >>> This causes a lot of frustration to me, because often I only decide > >>> that an equation has to be multi-line when I'm already half-

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-03 Thread Richard Heck
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: This causes a lot of frustration to me, because often I only decide that an equation has to be multi-line when I'm already half-way through typing it. When this happens, I have to type CMD-return, then CMD-z to

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > >This causes a lot of frustration to me, because often I only decide > >that an equation has to be multi-line when I'm already half-way > >through typing it. When this happens, I have to type CMD-return, then > >CMD-z to undo the creat

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-03 Thread Stephen Cornell
On 3 Aug 2007, at 16:19, Richard Heck wrote: Stephen Cornell wrote: Position the cursor in a single-line equation. Press CMD-return Expected behaviour: create a new line, with all material before the cursor on the present line to remain on the current line, and all material after the curs

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 04:39:51PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > If you want to warn the user that the document is not the clean > version on disk, perhaps a warning popup `The file is already open > '. The user is now out of danger... Worst of both worlds I think. I'm happy with either a

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread Stephen Cornell
On 3 Aug 2007, at 16:14, Richard Heck wrote: I think it could be confusing to switch to a document that wasn't the same as the one on disk that you thought you were opening. I just checked: even emacs just switches to the already-edited version without comment. One of the guiding princip

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread Richard Heck
John Levon wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: John Levon wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: I checked to see how other programs behave in this context, and Word, Pages, and NeoOffice simply switched to th

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > John Levon wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > > > >>I checked to see how other programs behave in this context, and Word, > >>Pages, and NeoOffice simply switched to the already-open (and

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > >> `The document blah.lyx is already being edited. Do you want to >> discard your changes and re-read from disk? >> > > With the logic mentioned previously, I think this makes sense, but

Re: UI wish/bug list [Two math issues]

2007-08-03 Thread Richard Heck
Stephen Cornell wrote: (2) Creating multi-line equations breaks the equation in a brain-dead place Position the cursor in a single-line equation. Press CMD-return Expected behaviour: create a new line, with all material before the cursor on the present line to remain on the current line, and a

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread Richard Heck
John Levon wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: I checked to see how other programs behave in this context, and Word, Pages, and NeoOffice simply switched to the already-open (and possibly edited) document without comment. Maybe that's the correct beha

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > `The document blah.lyx is already being edited. Do you want to > discard your changes and re-read from disk? > With the logic mentioned previously, I think this makes sense, but Continue editing should be "Cancel" I think. >

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread Stephen Cornell
On 3 Aug 2007, at 15:25, Richard Heck wrote: What if we did this: First, switch to the already open document; if the user wanted to open it, then she wants to switch to it, at least. Then check if it's dirty. If not, do nothing. If so, pop up a dialog that says something like, "The file [d

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread Dov Feldstern
John Levon wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: When trying to open a file which is already open in LyX, the user is confronted with `The document blah.lyx is already loaded. Do you want to revert to the saved version? .' `Switch' and `revert' are too a

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread Richard Heck
John Levon wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: When trying to open a file which is already open in LyX, the user is confronted with `The document blah.lyx is already loaded. Do you want to revert to the saved version? .' `Switch' and `revert' are to

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread Stephen Cornell
On 3 Aug 2007, at 15:08, John Levon wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: `The document blah.lyx is already open in LyX. Do you want to read the version saved on disk? document> .' Two problems: 1 - wording is too long for push buttons 2 - new descriptio

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > When trying to open a file which is already open in LyX, the user is > confronted with `The document blah.lyx is already loaded. Do you > want to revert to the saved version? .' > > `Switch' and `revert' are too ambiguous -