On 05/03/2011 04:44 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > venom00 wrote: >> I was thinking of the "home" or "start" tab (or maybe just as a background >> of the work area, instead of the LyX logo) where you can choose things >> like "Create new presentation", "Create a letter", a list of recent >> documents, link to option dialog, maybe an RSS feed, things like that. The >> idea comes from Adobe products and Qt Creator itself. >> >> Opinions? Things to add? > Maybe as a prerequisite to this we should add some sane categorization for > layouts, something I have in mind for a long time. Instead of (mis)using the > naming (as in "presentation (beamer)"), we should add a tag to the layout > files, e.g. > > ClassType presentation > > This can then be used in your dialog as well as in the document settings for > proper class type filtering/sorting (sort by type, show only letter classes, > etc.). > I once had a patch that did this. I can't find it now, unfortunately. But if this is done, then the category should go into the file header and be parsed by configure.py, I think, rather than into the body.
Richard
