Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > 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.
Not our job. LyX should do one thing, and that well. This thing happens to be document preparation. Reparing a broken system is definitely not the job of LyX. >> 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. If there is a suitable application is installed. I share Jean-Marcs concern that this case is very rare, since if the application is installed properly it would be already associated with the file type. > 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 don't agree. Exceptions are always bad: Extra code, extra documentation (explain why it does this or that with this format but not with the other one), so they should only be made if really necessary. A broken installation does not justify exceptions IMHO. Georg
