>>>>> "Ronald" == Ronald Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ronald> On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 04:44 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Ronald> wrote:

>> There is a nice problem with LyX on Qt/Mac, also. In their infinite
>> wisdom, the Qt/Mac coders decided that it would be a good idea to
>> find all the items in menus that look like "Preferences",
>> "Settings", "About LyX", remove them from their respective menus
>> and put them in the application menu.
>> 
>> Besides the fact that it is really bad taste (you cannot disable
>> this behaviour (except by recompiling qt/mac)), it completely
>> breaks down with LyX. For example, if one wants to access
>> preference, the right thing to do is to Open the Edit menu, close
>> it, and then go to the "LyX" menu.

Ronald> In fairness to Trolltech, it is "standard" behavior in Mac
Ronald> Aqua applications for the Preferences and About menus to
Ronald> appear under the application menu. I think the Trolltech
Ronald> QT/MacOSX libraries are just trying to stick to that look &
Ronald> feel. --

Yes, I understand that. But assuming what a menu entry does just based
on its text is not very nice. For example, I guess that the
Reconfigure menu entry should go there too. I do not see any way to
make that happen.

JMarc

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