[RFC] Enable Continuous Spellcheck By Default For New Users?

Hi, all, It has been suggested on the list that some (perhaps many) new users don't realize that LyX can do continuous spellcheck and would very much like it if it did. So it was proposed to enable it by default in 2.4.0. Existing users (meaning ones who have an earlier user directory that ne

Re: Preference to disable input completion?

On 12/1/20 11:29 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 01/12/2020 à 16:44, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : No, the forces of FUD and reaction managed to stop progress (again). I don't think we reached a conclusion here. The proposal was to enable it by default, but to set it to off for users migr

Re: Preference to disable input completion?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 05:29:33PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Scott, I am not sure you still have this set of preference files contributed > by users. Yes, I have them and double-checked that in my email asking for them I asked users to remove any information they did not want made pu

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Re: Preference to disable input completion?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 10:24:55AM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > Interesting. I'd not heard that distinction before???thanks for sharing it. I think I just made it ;) But you can see these two opposing approaches at play when some conflicting UI issue pops up here on the list. P -- lyx-devel mail

Re: Preference to disable input completion?

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 10:10 AM Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 07:47:40AM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > > Yep, that was the major point why we left continuous spellcheck off > years > > > back. > > > > > > Now it seems that you missed the new thread about continuous spellcheck > >

Re: Preference to disable input completion?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 07:47:40AM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > Yep, that was the major point why we left continuous spellcheck off years > > back. > > > > Now it seems that you missed the new thread about continuous spellcheck > > from one month back where left wing of devs come up with the reas

Re: Preference to disable input completion?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 02:23:57PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 01/12/2020 ?? 12:27, Pavel Sanda a écrit : > >Yep, that was the major point why we left continuous spellcheck off years > >back. > > > >Now it seems that you missed the new thread about continuous spellcheck from > >one mont

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Re: Preference to disable input completion?

Le 01/12/2020 à 16:44, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : No, the forces of FUD and reaction managed to stop progress (again). I don't think we reached a conclusion here. The proposal was to enable it by default, but to set it to off for users migrating from 2.3.x who haven't enabled it (via prefs

Re: Disable stuff automatically in dialogs with read-only

On 12/1/20 9:50 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Dear all, > > ButtonController has a addReadonly() feature that allows to control > which widgets should be disabled in read-only mode. It add the widgets > to a read_only_ vector, but this vector is never used? Why? > > The answer is that the code

Re: Preference to disable input completion?

On 12/1/20 8:23 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 01/12/2020 à 12:27, Pavel Sanda a écrit : >> Yep, that was the major point why we left continuous spellcheck off >> years back. >> >> Now it seems that you missed the new thread about continuous >> spellcheck from >> one month back where left win

Disable stuff automatically in dialogs with read-only

Dear all, ButtonController has a addReadonly() feature that allows to control which widgets should be disabled in read-only mode. It add the widgets to a read_only_ vector, but this vector is never used? Why? The answer is that the code was disabled a long time ago, and (partly) removed. c

Re: Preference to disable input completion?

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 4:29 AM Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 05:54:27PM -0500, Maria Gouskova wrote: > > I saw a similar discussion on lyx-devel a while back about enabling > > continuous spellcheck by default, and I almost jumped in with a "please > god > > no". I'm curious why

Re: Preference to disable input completion?

Le 01/12/2020 à 12:27, Pavel Sanda a écrit : Yep, that was the major point why we left continuous spellcheck off years back. Now it seems that you missed the new thread about continuous spellcheck from one month back where left wing of devs come up with the reasoning that many users won't get id

Re: Advanced find changes of behavior in master

Am Tue, 1 Dec 2020 11:10:38 +0100 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes : > Le 30/11/2020 à 02:28, Kornel Benko a écrit : > >> I tried to have a look, but I cannot set focus in the replace workarea. > >> I click and nothing happens. Am I the only one? > >> > >> ubuntu groovy 20.10, qt 5.14.2. > > > > Yo

Re: Preference to disable input completion?

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 05:54:27PM -0500, Maria Gouskova wrote: > I saw a similar discussion on lyx-devel a while back about enabling > continuous spellcheck by default, and I almost jumped in with a "please god > no". This sort of behavior and bloat is what sent a lot of us running away > from "wo

Re: Advanced find changes of behavior in master

Le 30/11/2020 à 02:28, Kornel Benko a écrit : I tried to have a look, but I cannot set focus in the replace workarea. I click and nothing happens. Am I the only one? ubuntu groovy 20.10, qt 5.14.2. You may see that you have focus if you use code-preview. Ot I could check that my document is