In top-quoting, I would like to recount a funny and baffling story which
happened to me just a few months ago, and which suggests that the
problems currently facing open source development are not technical
problems.
I offered a small patch to a well known project; a patch which would
make re
Dear Lyx-developer community,
I request the following feature for an upcoming release on Lyx:
Hide cursor when user edits text, unhide on mouse movement
Reason:
I find it very distracting that the cursor is always visible. In
particular when I place the cursor in my text to correct a misspelle
Richard Heck wrote:
> Hmm. Compiling under Qt 4.5, I do not see that there at all. Is there some
> kind of conflict involving the moc version? I also note, by the way, that
> the ui file in question has the xml line at the beginning, which might
xml line in the beginning means using designer 4.
On 09/15/2009 02:49 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote:
(I see even less of a reason to worry about this given the progress on
native HTML output, which everyone who has considered the question and who
knows anything about the matter knows is the only sensible option, long
term.)
Ha ha ha.
This
Sam Liddicott wrote:
> as an example:
> If Richard requires changes that Alex will not meet, then Lyx will suffer,
> not Alex and not Richard.
i am sorry but i completely disagree. Richard is trying to keep the code
maintanable and clean. this value may become clear only when you try to
fix bugs
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Claudio Wilmanns
wrote:
> Dear Lyx-developer community,
>
> I request the following feature for an upcoming release on Lyx:
> Hide cursor when user edits text, unhide on mouse movement
Do you mean the cursor or the mouse pointer?
BH
> Reason:
> I find it very di
* Pavel Sanda wrote, On 15/09/09 12:56:
Sam Liddicott wrote:
as an example:
If Richard requires changes that Alex will not meet, then Lyx will suffer,
not Alex and not Richard.
i am sorry but i completely disagree. Richard is trying to keep the code
maintanable and clean. this value may becom
Am 15.09.2009 um 14:01 schrieb BH:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Claudio Wilmanns
wrote:
Dear Lyx-developer community,
I request the following feature for an upcoming release on Lyx:
Hide cursor when user edits text, unhide on mouse movement
Do you mean the cursor or the mouse pointer?
Alex Fernandez wrote:
So everything that is needed is a bridge that can be used to call the
local library. Attached is this file elyxerbridge.py, which should be
added to directory $s/scripts/; it simply gathers command line
parameters and calls elyxerconv with it. The detection method eeds a
lit
On 09/15/2009 08:21 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Alex Fernandez wrote:
So everything that is needed is a bridge that can be used to call the
local library. Attached is this file elyxerbridge.py, which should be
added to directory $s/scripts/; it simply gathers command line
parameters and calls
rgheck writes:
> It seems like that isn't the right place to do it. As I said, I don't
> know, because no one will tell me what the problem is.
I have not followed the tread well enough to know whether the real
problem has been stated somwhere, but it is indeed the point from where
we should star
I appreciate Sam's attempt to move this discussion in a more
constructive direction and will make a few comments.
There is a strong case that no patch is ideal, patches may reach our
present mis-placed understanding of "ideal", an understanding which we
dearly hope will be superseded in time
>> Perhaps the right way to implement it would be just to stop showing
>> tracked changes when change tracking is turned off. It's hard to see
>> why you'd want to see them if you weren't currently tracking them, or
>> have them off if you are tracking them.
>
>The later situation actually see
"Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW" writes:
> I did some work on this, but it mostly requires to add some if
> statements to the painting code and some ui, not that difficult yet very
> useful.
And all the cursor movement routines? I would be surprised to find that
it is so easy, unless we can hide th
Alex Fernandez wrote:
A few things ;) As Uwe has explained above, Windows integration with
the executable does not work well due to a bug in the shell, so when
LyX calls eLyXer on Windows as:
> elyxer.py --directory "directory path" "input file.lyx" "output file.html"
eLyXer does not receive p
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:47:21PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> [...]
> greets from sicily! :)
Did you jump on the wrong train again?
Andre'
Hi Abdel,
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Technically speaking, I will just say that either this bridge is bundled
> with the Windows installer or the full elyxer is bundled with LyX together
> with the other python scripts.
The Windows issue (which I will comment bel
Hi Joost,
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Joost Verburg wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to solve this problem instead? I doubt it's a bug in
> the Windows shell.
Wow, a constructive and enlightening comment -- I've come to
appreciate what I once took for granted. Apparently there was enough
of a
Hi Jean-Marc,
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
wrote:
> I have not followed the tread well enough to know whether the real
> problem has been stated somwhere, but it is indeed the point from where
> we should start.
Ok, let's start again. By the way, this problem was already
On 09/15/2009 07:44 PM, Alex Fernandez wrote:
When reading this I thought: "if there is a bug with elyxer.py and
windows that can be solved by using some elyxerbridge.py script, why is
this code not included in the original python script?"
Because it exists solely for use in LyX, and it
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:00 PM, rgheck wrote:
> Modulo, perhaps, the issues on OSX, which I have not yet fully
> understood.
I haven't been following closely -- too busy at the moment. But from
what I can tell, the problem on OS X is simply inconvenience for the
user. If we -- I -- bundle elyxer
On 09/15/2009 09:21 PM, BH wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:00 PM, rgheck wrote:
Modulo, perhaps, the issues on OSX, which I have not yet fully
understood.
I haven't been following closely -- too busy at the moment. But from
what I can tell, the problem on OS X is simply inconvenienc
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