On Jun 3, 2017 15:50, "Scott Kostyshak" <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
Thanks for this idea, Cris. Would this be only to see how many people are using LyX or for something in addition to that? Every time I think about something like that, I challenge myself and ask: "Why do I want to know how many people use LyX?" and my answer is always just that I would be curious. Since I don't think it would lead to any improvement in LyX, my train of thought stops there. GA (as far as I understand it) can track usage within any app. For example, each time a user selects New, the app can "click" a link via GA that signifies New. It's up to the developer to determine granularity of usage stats. In theory you could collect preference data at every closing/applying of the preference dialogue (it could be arguments to a tracking URL). I'm not an expert in how best to do it, but it's "usage data" that many apps already collect. GA is but a means to that end. There are other options: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1554062/1168342
