Dear Helge, On 2017-02-28, Helge Hafting wrote: > Den 21. jan. 2017 09:35, skrev Jürgen Spitzmüller:
>> It has been brought up repeatedly, and I've looked into it several >> times. The problem is that, astonishingly, there is no straightforward >> way to add custom items to Qt's "places" widget (the "directory panel >> on the left"). > Well, is it possible to add/change a pushbutton on the top instead? > There is already "Documents" which uselessly takes me to the home > folder, and "Templates" that gives me the folder with LyX templates. > The "Templates" button is useful, it gives me all the templates > distributed with LyX. > Could the "Document" button be changed so it brings up > "~/.lyx/templates/" instead of just "~/"? And perhaps with a caption > like "Private templates" instead of "Documents"? > The un-changeable directory panel on the left already has the home > folder ready, so no need to have a button for that. > Newbies don't notice, but as soon as you use LyX so much that you create > your own template documents, this becomes a problem. The proper place > for a private template is ~/.lyx/templates (at least on linux), but it > is only accessible by typing the path. You can change the expansion of the buttons in Tools>Preferences>Paths. I set the Document templates path to ~/.lyx/templates and in this directory I added a symlink to the standard templates path. This way, both standard and private templates are easily available. Also, I changed the "Documents" path to a subfolder with my lyx documents... > "Save As" is even worse. Clicking "Templates" make one think that this > is how you save a template for future use. But it brings up > /usr/share/lyx/templates/ where users don't have write access. (And they > should not have either.) It'd be much better if "Save As..."->Templates > gave us ~/.lyx/templates/ There is no need to bring up the LyX template > folder in the save dialog. Also solved after setting Tools>Preferences>Paths. Günter
