On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:16 am, Angus Leeming wrote: > Charles de Miramon wrote: > > For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I > > think that LyX should show the shortcuts in the same Windowish way that > > Gnome or KDE. Who is using a Sun keyboard anyway ? > > key bindings are all configurable. See $PREFIX/share/lyx/bind. Personally, > as an emacs fan, I use emacs.bind. I guess you should be using cua.bind. > Or adapt to suit. Copy the best fit bind file to your $HOME/.lyx/bind > directory and edit to suit. > > > For easing the learning curve for MsWord users, a Tool menu entry with > > spellchecking, etc. would be be handy. > > Like this (attached screen shot) you mean? Again, menus are configurable. > See $PREFIX/share/lyx/ui/default.ui. The screen shot shows the default > menus for LyX 1.4.x which are radically different to those of 1.3.x. LyX > 1.4.x will ship with a 'classic.ui' for those more comfortable with what > they have now. > > >> I am not sure how a plugin based application would solve the LaTeX > >> support model, actually. > > > > If I could write my 300 hundreds line Python script to add a GUI for the > > Frenchb babel macros that I use every day, maybe I would motivate myself > > to read the big Python book I bought and never read.... Other would do it > > for their pet LateX packages and Herbert Voss would create a gigantic > > pstricks plugin :-). > > Yes, as Matej has said already, LyX is lacking good scripting support. > > But nonetheless, a plugin needs to interact with the existing kernel. Our > notion of 'plugin' is an 'inset'. Just as you describe, you need to know > next to nothing about the rest of the code base to create a new inset. > > LyX doesn't use KDE to implement the *core* of the program, but that > doesn't mean it isn't easy to add functionality to it. Please come and > join in ;-)
I hope LyX *NEVER* depends on KDE in any way. My personal experience tells me that KDE is unstable, to the point where I use very few KDE apps. I use Kmail right now, but am looking for a replacement. Kmail crashes on me regularly. I've used LyX since 2001, and it's been rock solid stable. I really appreciate that, and hope it isn't contaminated with DCOPisms and all the other KDE fluffNbunch. SteveT -- Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
