I see. IMO the LFUN way is preferable. I'll give one use case where I would find this useful: when writing a document with length constraints (e.g. # words, # chars), it would be nice to have the information accessible through a shortcut on the status bar (instead of going to where the inset was inserted). Something sligthy more human-friendly would be nicer (e.g. words: ## chars: ## chars+spaces: ##) instead of ## ## ## as in the patch.
Btw, it would be also nice to have selection-bound statistics (e.g. in some journals / grant calls there are rigid bounds for each section or part). A/ On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: > Alfredo Braunstein wrote: >> Sorry for the dumb question, but what is InsetInfo good for (in terms >> of usecase). It seems like a very strange concept IMHO. Why can't it >> be e.g a dialog or a panel? > > It's part of the document and it will be printed, so dialog won't work. > Originally for shortcuts, nowadays it can contain filename, path, > revision info. > > Pavel
