I am about to send a couple of gripes about viewing images in lyx-1.2. Rather than putting all in one large email, I preferred splitting things up, so they can be discussed separately. Let me state here that (despite my criticism) I greatly appreciate the effort the lyx team puts into giving us users the greatest document processor existing!
I really think that the new mechanisms of handling graphics, defining formats and coverters and have the user decide how to convert what is great. Very flexible and powerful. Note, however, that I did not see this from the start. I am not used to be given this kind of power, and my first reaction was "Uh, this seems complicated, why do I need to mess with the converters now when everything was automatic before?". Basically, since now I _can_ fix things that don't work (converters not defined correctly, not the right version of xforms, ImageMagick ...), I am _responsible_ for fixing them. No need to say that things were far from perfect before, but since there was not much I could do about it, I put up with it. I guess the more power the developers give to the user, the more they need to hold the hands of those who are not interested in power, but in ease of use. Jan
