Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-09-05 Thread Georg Baum
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Il 31/08/2011 21:19, Georg Baum ha scritto: >> This plan exists for ages. The graphics inset even was already ditched at >> some point in time, but it got reintroduced later, because the external >> inset did not work that well back then. IIRC there is also a bug entry >

Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-09-05 Thread Helge Hafting
On 02. sep. 2011 02:45, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: [...] I'm not sure why some of the external material contents are not previewed on the screen. External material is not necessarily images. The spreadsheet inset is converted to a longtable, for example. A longtable may get broken up over sever

Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-09-01 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Il 31/08/2011 21:19, Georg Baum ha scritto: This plan exists for ages. The graphics inset even was already ditched at some point in time, but it got reintroduced later, because the external inset did not work that well back then. IIRC there is also a bug entry for that. You will be a hero if you

Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-08-31 Thread Georg Baum
Julien Rioux wrote: > On 31/08/2011 3:25 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Julien Rioux wrote: >>> Is anybody working on this? Any strong discouraging opinions? This plan exists for ages. The graphics inset even was already ditched at some point in time, but it got reintroduced later, because the extern

Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-08-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
Julien Rioux wrote: > No, not ditching it completely. But some external templates are really > graphic formats and it's confusing to have them appear elsewhere. Also, can you name which particular templates you have in mind? > I must say that as a user I did not understand this distinction. if

Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-08-31 Thread Julien Rioux
On 31/08/2011 3:25 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Julien Rioux wrote: Is anybody working on this? Any strong discouraging opinions? i'm not sure what exactly you have in mind. - ditching the whole external material stuff? what will be done with non graphics templates? - or just moving some graphics f

Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-08-31 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Il 31/08/2011 14:17, Julien Rioux ha scritto: Is anybody working on this? Any strong discouraging opinions? Tommaso, were you working on achieving this? Where can I find your latest patch? I forgot to mention the wiki note: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/CreateFromEmptySample Bye, T.

Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-08-31 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Il 31/08/2011 16:37, Julien Rioux ha scritto: No, not ditching it completely. But some external templates are really graphic formats and it's confusing to have them appear elsewhere. Also, chunks of the user interface are similar and could be merged. Hello, my last patch was attached to #5962

Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-08-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
Julien Rioux wrote: > Is anybody working on this? Any strong discouraging opinions? i'm not sure what exactly you have in mind. - ditching the whole external material stuff? what will be done with non graphics templates? - or just moving some graphics format from external to "internal"? there was

Re: merging of external material and graphics interfaces

2011-08-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Julien Rioux wrote: > Is anybody working on this? Any strong discouraging opinions? On the contrary, I'd like to encourage you on this. Jürgen