Il 29/07/2011 10:55, Pavel Sanda ha scritto:
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
1) AFAICS, there's really no reason for keeping .dia drawings as templates.
for the particular case of dia the distinction makes no big sense indeed,
its more of letting user to know that we do support dia at all...
I see - this would be addressable via a selection combo-box in the
GuiGraphics dialog which could be very similar to the one you have
in the GuiExternal dialog.
So, the unexperienced user would simply type a tentative name for
the new graphics, choose from the combo the type (and he/she would
see we have .dia, and choosing it we'd have a short description saying
its a vectorial graphics editor [or it could come through a tooltip]),
then go for Create/Edit and proceed.
(another point was to distinguish drawing formats we support out of the box
with imagemagick and which require external tools, like dia. we have
already broken this with eg .svg though.)
Isn't ImageMagick an external tool as well ?
Btw, the key point is making the user aware of (at least) the open-source
tools that can be used along with LyX, for a better document writing
experience. This could be documented in the user guide, plus in Debian-
based packages of LyX we could have the "suggested" dependencies
enumerating the supported editors/viewers/converters (as I'm seeing
we already have).
T.
