some feedback for the new LyX toolbar buttons

2015-04-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello Enrico, many thanks for your work with the buttons. I don't have a strong opinion for the colors and style, I only want to give feedback for the readability. So far all buttons are OK except of: - the insert index entry button. It is very hard to understand what this is about because i

Re: Some feedback...

2008-08-02 Thread Eduardo Alberto Hernández Muñoz
Hi list, maybe I should have signed to the list after all... @Pavel: >> I'm not subscribed or anything but I thought that maybe it would be >> nice to give some feedback, so I created a little rough document that >> should be attached. I'm not sure it's very relev

Re: Some feedback...

2008-08-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> I'm not subscribed or anything but I thought that maybe it would be > nice to give some feedback Too bad that you returned to OOo because of a single problem. I moreover cannot reproduce your problem: I go to the file menu, there to "new from template" and then cho

Re: Some feedback...

2008-08-02 Thread Pavel Sanda
rgheck wrote: > That'd be an absolutely trivial module, if we wanted to do it that way. > Compare foottoend.module. it will take some time to rewire my brain tracks and start to think in do_it_module_way from the hardcoding :) i think nice to have it. pavel

Re: Some feedback...

2008-08-02 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: Eduardo Alberto Hernández Mu?oz wrote: Hi list, I'm not subscribed or anything but I thought that maybe it would be nice to give some feedback, so I created a little rough document that should be attached. I'm not sure it's very relevant, but I'm runni

Re: Some feedback...

2008-08-02 Thread Pavel Sanda
Eduardo Alberto Hernández Mu?oz wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm not subscribed or anything but I thought that maybe it would be > nice to give some feedback, so I created a little rough document that > should be attached. I'm not sure it's very relevant, but I'

Some feedback...

2008-08-01 Thread Eduardo Alberto Hernández Muñoz
Hi list, I'm not subscribed or anything but I thought that maybe it would be nice to give some feedback, so I created a little rough document that should be attached. I'm not sure it's very relevant, but I'm running Linux and version 1.5.4. -Coz lyx_feedback.lyx Description: Binary data

Re: Fwd: Some feedback from a lost user

2008-07-15 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe the LyX window should have a big banner that says something like >> "New user? Have you read the 'Introduction' and the 'Tutorial'? > > AFAIK, that's already what we do by opening the introduction the first time

Re: Fwd: Some feedback from a lost user

2008-07-15 Thread Michal Skrzypek
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:46:35 +0200 Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > I tried getting two thesis students to use LyX, but they preferred > plain LaTeX because it was easier for them to do diff's and commits > using Mercurial. Now THIS is strange, as I am an example of so

Re: Fwd: Some feedback from a lost user

2008-07-15 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:46:04AM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: So unfortunately it's not anything concrete, but he talks more about a general feeling. I'm guessing it's caused by frustration when you don't know how to do things. Yes, that

Re: Fwd: Some feedback from a lost user

2008-07-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:46:04AM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > Anyway, I just thought I'd forward the feedback I got from David as a > general input. Maybe it'll trigger a useful discussion. Well, we took for too long the route of the lowest common denominator which basically stalled pr

Re: Fwd: Some feedback from a lost user

2008-07-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:46:04AM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > So unfortunately it's not anything concrete, but he talks more about a > general feeling. I'm guessing it's caused by frustration when you don't > know how to do things. Yes, that's it. It is the same frustration I was fee

Re: Fwd: Some feedback from a lost user

2008-07-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christian Ridderström wrote: Or amybe it's a problem specifically for users that haven't read the manual? Maybe the LyX window should have a big banner that says something like "New user? Have you read the 'Introduction' and the 'Tutorial'? I would guess that the problem for many users is th

Re: Fwd: Some feedback from a lost user

2008-07-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christian Ridderström wrote: Hi, I got some feedback from a user (David) that gave up on LyX after a quick try. The last straw was conversion problem (importing a matrix from Excel to something inside LyX). However, this particular reason is not why I'm forwarding his feedback. David

Fwd: Some feedback from a lost user

2008-07-13 Thread Christian Ridderström
Hi, I got some feedback from a user (David) that gave up on LyX after a quick try. The last straw was conversion problem (importing a matrix from Excel to something inside LyX). However, this particular reason is not why I'm forwarding his feedback. David said: I have no pr

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-07-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Trenton" == Trenton Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Trenton> Yes, the path to the headers. In the binary package, they are Trenton> only stored _inside_ the frameworks. So I would need a path Trenton> similar to -I/ Li

Re: some feedback on installing lyx1.5rc1 on windows

2007-06-19 Thread Rafael Maguiña
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: I assume you're rather computer savvy. Would you say above average (for a Windows user)? Yes, I think I could say above average. I'm able to install windows and have already tried ubuntu, puppy linux and some others. I'm using texlive under ubunt

Re: some feedback on installing lyx1.5rc1 on windows

2007-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 quirks here: 1) some packages I needed weren't in the bundle, which I would rather recommend to include; 2) miktex wanted to install some extra packages which I can't imagine I will ever need nor can imagine that lyx needs them to run. The reason for why Mi

Re: some feedback on installing lyx1.5rc1 on windows

2007-06-18 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joost/Uwe, can you confirm that a user can manually run a dictionary installer? If this is the case, then we could see about adding instructions for the user of a bundled installer to also download the relevant dictionary installers. The bundled installer allows you t

Re: some feedback on installing lyx1.5rc1 on windows

2007-06-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Rafael Maguiña wrote: First of all, thanks for giving us the feedback! I assume you're rather computer savvy. Would you say above average (for a Windows user)? Installing: I chose the bundle on purpose, as I knew the machine on which I wanted to install lyx isn't conne

some feedback on installing lyx1.5rc1 on windows

2007-06-18 Thread Rafael Maguiña
Dear LyX team, I write to you as a user who wants to give some feedback on my last experience installing lyx1.5rc1 on windows from the bundle with all the dependencies. First some background: I had already tried lyx some years ago, both under windows and linux, and have been trying it once in

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Helge Hafting wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On LyX side, the main and only reason why there is a full redraw on each cursor movement is because we want to draw to little pink corners in the current formula. It is easy to disable the pink corners though (thus avoiding the full redraw) and if

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On LyX side, the main and only reason why there is a full redraw on each cursor movement is because we want to draw to little pink corners in the current formula. It is easy to disable the pink corners though (thus avoiding the full redraw) and if you can live without t

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Trenton Schulz wrote: So, I fired up Shark and Quartz Debug to take a look at why things are so slow when moving around in a math formula. It seems that when I'm moving around in normal text, the area around the cursor is updated, which is what I would expect and why moving through normal text

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-11 Thread Trenton Schulz
On Mar 2, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Trenton Schulz wrote: I will try to check out the performance issue sometime next week as I am away for the weekend and report back. Still planning on doing this. I said I would do this :) -- Trenton Performance on a 1GHz PPC Mac is acceptable (for th

to no or to nb, that is the question (was Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta)

2007-03-11 Thread Trenton Schulz
On Mar 8, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Helge Hafting wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Helge" == Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Helge> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: [...] This looks a bit more complicated that I would have hoped (and the fact that it proposes 'no' for norwegian instead of

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Helge" == Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Helge> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: [...] This looks a bit more complicated that I would have hoped (and the fact that it proposes 'no' for norwegian instead of 'nb' worries me). Helge> I w

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-07 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: > Using "no" simply means they are a bit behind. It is just > an example anyway, isn't it? Sure, but it feels a bit awkward to me if you consider where the company who produces qt is located... Georg

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Helge" == Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Helge> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: [...] >> This looks a bit more complicated that I would have hoped (and the >> fact that it proposes 'no' for norwegian instead of 'nb' worries >> me). >> Helge> I wouldn't worry too much about that. "no

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-07 Thread Helge Hafting
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: [...] This looks a bit more complicated that I would have hoped (and the fact that it proposes 'no' for norwegian instead of 'nb' worries me). I wouldn't worry too much about that. "no" used to be the locale for norwegian, these days it is either "nb" or "nn" depen

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-06 Thread Bennett Helm
On Mar 6, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The INSTALL.MacOSX file is supposed to cover everything that is useful. Yes, it's *supposed* to, though it hasn't been updated for 1.5 yet. There are some important differences between 1.4 and 1.5. Anders Ekberg has sent me updated

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Trenton" == Trenton Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Trenton> Yes, the path to the headers. In the binary package, they are Trenton> only stored _inside_ the frameworks. So I would need a path Trenton> similar to -I/ Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Headers Trenton> -I/Library/Framewor

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-02 Thread Trenton Schulz
On Mar 2, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Georg Baum wrote: Trenton Schulz wrote: It's only a problem if you have something like this. #define BIG_ENDIAN // I am building on PowerPC. // ... #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN // some endian specific stuff // ... #endif We have something like this: The WORDS_BIGENDIAN d

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-02 Thread Trenton Schulz
On Mar 2, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Trenton Schulz wrote: Trenton> Is there any reason why LyX isn't built universal? Mostly ignorance on my part. (My standard disclaimer: I am not a developer.) Also some have thought that having separate binaries i

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-02 Thread Georg Baum
Trenton Schulz wrote: > It's only a problem if you have something like this. > > #define BIG_ENDIAN // I am building on PowerPC. > > // ... > > #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN > // some endian specific stuff > // ... > #endif We have something like this: The WORDS_BIGENDIAN define. This is used e.g. in src/

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Mar 1, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Trenton Schulz wrote: Trenton> Is there any reason why LyX isn't built universal? Mostly ignorance on my part. (My standard disclaimer: I am not a developer.) Also some have thought that having separate binaries is preferable because it results in smaller file s

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-01 Thread Trenton Schulz
On Mar 1, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Trenton" == Trenton Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If that's the case, I would suggest putting the right magic into configure to add the paths. Did you try the '--with-qt-include' option? Trenton> No. If I can pass multiple pat

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Trenton" == Trenton Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> If that's the case, I would suggest putting the right magic into >>> configure to add the paths. >> Did you try the '--with-qt-include' option? Trenton> No. If I can pass multiple path's along there, then that Trenton> would work.

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-01 Thread Trenton Schulz
On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Trenton Schulz wrote: So, anyway, long story short. I added the library name to the front of all the headers and I include them as a diff here, this made things compile for me. Feel free to decide what you will do. I know that it is k

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

2007-03-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Trenton Schulz wrote: So, anyway, long story short. I added the library name to the front of all the headers and I include them as a diff here, this made things compile for me. Feel free to decide what you will do. I know that it is kind of a change in policy and you may not want to do that.