Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit :
"Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Abdelrazak> I can think of many such example in windows. Indeed even
Abdelrazak> when you remove an application, the association of the
Abdelrazak> extension with that application is not removed.
How broken can a system be?
It can be *much* worse, believe me... A Windows system can be broken in
so many ways that we have somewhat to live with that.
Note that I was considering the opposite case: you have the useful
app, but it is not associated with the type.
When Windows tells you there is no associated type and offers you to
select the application of your choice. This works quite well.
Abdelrazak> Then when you double-click on a file with that extension,
Abdelrazak> windows will try to find the application and offer you to
Abdelrazak> associate it with a manually selected application.
So, you uninstalled GSView. Next time you want to preview a PS file,
what kind of miracle is windows going to do to view this file?
Depends on how GSView was uninstalled - i.e. if the type association is
there or not. If there, windows will try to look for GSView, if not
Windows will ask you if you want to select another application.
Also, if we add rules to export/view to OpenOffice (or worse
MyWordApp'92) in the configure script (for the benefit of one user
who happens to have good connections with one developer ;), all the
users will have this entry in the view menu and will wonder forever
how they can get it to work. Great...
Come on Jean-Marc, we are talking about the 3 most used format: dvi, ps
an pdf. IMHO it is OK to make exception for those three. Let's just be
pragmatic here.
I do not think people should be encouraged to change from within
LyX something that is actually a global windows setting.
Abdelrazak> I think Bo's patch delegate that to Windows actually (no
Abdelrazak> sure of that).
Yes he does. But for the user, you change something in LyX and all the
system reflects it (although I agree this is not a big deal).
Indeed, this is not a big deal and the Windows user (the dominant specie
:-) ) is used to that kind of behavior... that's just part of the
Windows brokenness.
Abdel.
