Le 06/11/2015 05:37, Pavel Sanda a écrit :
Guillaume Munch wrote:
express any intention. Your description gives the impression that if
your collaborator starts writing and they do not see that the changes
are not being tracked, then they will not know or care about enabling
change tracking, as if they had no clue, and this little button has to
be enabled for them without them to know about it... This seems a bit
far fetched to me.
It is actually were rare that I co-work with geeks and I am very
lucky if I have someone willing to open file in lyx, not to talk
about recognizing what various buttons on toolbar might mean.
First a disclaimer: I do not use change tracking with LyX (otherwise I
would have implemented hidden deletions long ago :). I do however, use
it when I am force to collaborate through .doc file (for research
contracts mostly). And I can tell you the truth:
People don't know what they are doing.
In this sense, I support keeping a permanent setting for change
tracking, as a state of a document. I think that the workflow "some of
the coauthors use CT for fun" is not what should dictate the design of
the feature.
principle of least surprise: it is not clear for a new user that this is
a purpose of the button. So if what is currently implemented is really
what you have in mind, then it is a very poorly designed feature.
I am not toolbar person and always used menu for toggling, it might
be that toolbar buttons are completely screewed without me noticing :)
Before you started this thread it felt natural that CT on/off state
should be document setting and not otherwise.
How other office packages deal with this?
Pavel
