On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@hist.no> wrote: >> >> >> Den 23. mars 2015 17:57, skrev Scott Kostyshak: >>> >>> Dear LyX users, >>> >>> What are your thoughts on having an option in the menu called >>> something like "Disable editing" or "Read only", which would make it >>> so you could not edit the current document? >>> >> Have you tried making the file itself read-only? LyX already knows about >> read-only files and will not allow editing then. > > Good point. I think the advantage of the feature being discussed at > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6692 > is to give users a user-friendly way to do it inside of LyX. > Indeed. Setting a file read-only on the disk may work well enough for Linux users, but Windows or Mac users can't be bothered with such low-level details. Having a quick way to set this within LyX can be useful, and even within the same LyX session you can set/unset this status.
Liviu > Scott -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
