Nah, Liviu, thanks for the suggestion but downgrading is never a good solution. I have been working this whole week with Beamer on 2.1 and let's say that the new UI is the least of my concerns. ;)
------------------------------------------------- Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Julio Rojas <jcredbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I feel your pain Richard, I really do. Unfortunately, I am in a phase of > my > > academic life in which everything is on the "production" branch, so > testing > > of Lyx RC's for my documents was a big no-no. Couldn't risk loosing time. > > So, sad as it seems, I only noticed these changes after Ubuntu asked me > if I > > would like to update Lyx to 2.1. :( > > > You can still downgrade. (BUT do this only if you haven't already > saved your .lyx files with 2.1.) Go to > > https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=superseded&field.series_filter= > , select 'Superseeded packages', then manually download the 2.0.7 > packages, and install them using 'gdebi'. Consider uninstalling 2.1.0 > first. > > Liviu > > > > BTW, now I understand what Jurgen meant by "no need" to indent the > paragraph > > after a frame title for the text to remain within the "Frame". I thought > > that by saying it was a "Frame" environment, the text would not behave > as a > > standard indented standard environment. My mistake. Nevertheless, > > indentation gives a clear idea that this text belongs to this "Frame". > > Anyways, as I continuously use "Theorems" (and derivatives), I usually > found > > myself indenting these environments into a "Frame", so indenting standard > > text is kind of a natural extension for me. > > > > Thanks for the hard work dudes. I will go back to my never-ending stream > of > > Beamer slides... ;) > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > Julio Rojas > > jcredbe...@gmail.com > > > > > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> > >> On 05/08/2014 02:51 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >>> > >>> Julio Rojas wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Maybe for beginners it wouldn't be a bad idea. Alt-P Shift-Return is > >>>> faster > >>>> for experienced users, though. > >>> > >>> No, this was not intended for beginners. The need of individual > separator > >>> makes the document > >>> more fragile and more cumbersome in 90% of cases. > >>> > >>> Fragile because it's easy to forget. Cumbersome because you need to > >>> insert new > >>> environment on places where information about new frame was enough. > >>> Changing > >>> some document into beamer used to be breeze for me - if you want it > fast > >>> just go > >>> through document and turn sections into frames, delete some pargraphs > and > >>> you are > >>> done. Now you have to insert mostly superficial separator and care > about > >>> nesting. Doable but steals time. > >> > >> > >> No offense to anyone, but if I were Jurgen, I'd be thinking: These are > all > >> great > >> suggestions, but how long was this in master? How long did people have > to > >> test it after alpha1? > >> > >> That said, it would be great if those of us who use Beamer extensively > >> could > >> come up with some concrete ideas about how the UI should work. Jurgen > did > >> the hard work. This should just be tweaking, though perhaps the > absolutely > >> best version involves something like a new layout tag. If so, then that > is > >> also > >> doable. > >> > >> Richard > >> > > > > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail >
