On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 07:47:40AM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > Yep, that was the major point why we left continuous spellcheck off years > > back. > > > > Now it seems that you missed the new thread about continuous spellcheck > > from one month back where left wing of devs come up with the reasoning that > > many users won't get idea about existing spellcheck in lyx unless it's on > > by default. > > > > I've never been called left wing, and I'm pretty sure I don't qualify as > 'dev,' but this goes beyond reasoning.
To state myself clearly by left wing position I meant the opinion that the users need someone to guide them, while the right wing opinion tends toward more raw ui experience when you are on your own. When you lean too much to the left there is a danger that power users will be annoyed by the helper functions (I guess that's what Maria called bloat), when you lean too much to the right you will make you program hostile to the average user base. IIRC in the case of continuous spellcheck the initial decade old discussion was that it's hard-to-find function for some newcomers vs irritating bloat for some oldschoolers. The resolution was to keep it off by default but add toolbar icon for easy discoverability. The current push was that toolbar icon is not enough and resolution was that conservative users will be served by pref2pref machinery to keep it off, while newcomers will have it on. Meaning that you need be both conservative and oldcomer to have it off by default now :) Pavel -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel