On 2019-03-17, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Thank you for the dialogue. It is an improvement, indeed.
> The dialog also has a Browse button that opens the file dialog (in the
> respective system directory) if a user wants to open a file beyond
> those dirs. So the current procedure is still there, just one click
> farther away.
> The tree categorization is determined by the subfolders (files in the
> top hierarchy go to "General", but I propose not to use this), and it
> can take max two depths (templates/category/subcategory = category >
> subcategory).
> My next step, if you agree with the proposal, is to re-organize
> templates and example folders in the following order:
> [<LANG>/]/<LAYOUT CATEGORY>/[<LAYOUT GUI NAME>*/]<file>
Now, the menu entry Help>Specific_Manuals ...
fails to open any of the specific manuals. The terminal says
LyX: unable to find documentation file `Linguistics'. Bad installation?
Some ideas:
* Could we use a "LyX" or "LyX-document" icon instead of the "gear wheel"
icon for documents from the system dir, please?
After all, these are documents are not some system files from the OS
but LyX documents provided by the LyX team.
* I'd like to see a selector to switch between templates and examples or
merge them. Maybe as an extension of the "Type" drop-down list.
For some layouts, there is no template file and it is convenient to
start a document from an example instead or vice versa: a template may
give a usage example when the example is missing.
Of course this is also possible with:
- File>New from Template
- Look for matching template
- no luck:
-> Browse, or
-> Cancel, File>Open Example, ... , Save as
But this is less convenient, especially as the file names are
ugly in any file browser.
Günter
