On 18/06/2007, at 4:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: RC2 coming soon - math panels patch
> I tested the patch and there are some issues left:
> - It is still not possible to insert two consecutive symbols
because the panel is closed after every selection, see also
> http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3839#c1
> - Bug 3840 is not fixed for me. Detaching a panel should be
intuitive and the current implementation is not. I takes me > 5
minutes until I get it.
> ----
> Besides this I miss than the tooltips aren't shown for the math
panels. Tooltips work e.g. for roots, styles, fonts and its
> subentries are shown in the status bar but e.g. not for the
subentries of the Greek, Arrows panels.
> regards Uwe
From my point of view, as a user who really needs it, it works
perfectly.
Admittedly, "Detaching a panel should be intuitive ", however, once
you find out that to detach a palette you single click once above
dashed the line, a palette easily detaches every time (until I
accidently discovered this, I spent much time trying to detach by
"tearing" that is, dragging, which I think is probably the intuitive
method).
Once detached it is certainly possible "to insert two consecutive
symbols". In fact, you can have as many math palettes open as you
like and successfully select symbols from each one into your math box.
My understanding of the implementation philosophy, is that when a
math palette is attached it should close on selection of a single
symbol but if it is detached it should stay open. I don't necessarily
agree with this functionality decision, but this is what was decided
should happen so from that point of view it works "as advertised".
Not sure what tooltips are meant? How to use the palette, or what a
symbol is for?
Whatever, the RC2 decision, I will certainly include in my RC2 build
as, for my purposes, it is a tremendous improvement in usability.
Irrespective, LyX 1.5 is great, congratulations to the developers on
a great and well appreciated effort,
Roger
