On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 31. März 2015 um 11:02:45, schrieb Enrico Forestieri > <for...@lyx.org> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 09:04:41AM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: >> > Am Montag, 30. März 2015 um 20:26:04, schrieb Scott Kostyshak >> > <skost...@lyx.org> >> > >> > > It seems there is an enhancement that we can do. For example, we could >> > > have a user-friendly dialog about not having write permissions to the >> > > directory where an image is stored. The only alternative I can think >> > > of is to change the path of the image to the same directory where the >> > > .tex file is exported to. >> > >> > +1 to the alternative. Why pollute the the source dirs of the icons? >> >> What about the fact that an image with same name already exists there? >> As it is not alongside the source image, it is possible that it is >> not related. In the case of latex exports, the only sensible thing >> is copying to a properly named subdir the images and all necessary >> files not already in the document dir or a subdir of it, IMO. > > Document subdir is fine with me. Especially good, if 'exporting as', so > everything needed > is there too.
Sounds good. Would we only do this if the other directory does not have write permissions? Or to be consistent we would always do it? What is a good name for the subdir? What do we do if it already exists? Scott
