User template directory

2017-01-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, I was about to file an enhancement ticket on this, after striking out with a search of Trac, but it seems like such an obvious thing that I wanted to first check whether I'd be duplicating past effort. The File > New from Template... dialog defaults to listing "standard" templates (i

Re: User template directory

2017-01-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2017-01-20, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Hi all, > The File > New from Template... dialog defaults to listing "standard" > templates (in /usr/share/lyx/templates, at least on Ubuntu-like > systems). The directory panel on the left, on my system, sports icons > for "Computer" and my home directory,

Re: User template directory

2017-01-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 01/20/2017 05:26 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: For easy access to both private and standard templates, I have * set a custom template dir path under Tools>Settings>Paths * added a symlink "stdtemplates" to the standard templates dir there. Günter Great idea! Just implemented it at my end. I'm st

Re: User template directory

2017-01-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
ve to mess with symlinks to fix this. Paul I'm puzzled. On my windows system, under Tools>Settings>Paths>Document templates I've simply entered the path to my user template directory -- it happens to be C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.2\templates New from Template li

Re: User template directory

2017-01-21 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 20.01.2017 um 23:50 schrieb Paul A. Rubin : > > On 01/20/2017 05:26 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> For easy access to both private and standard templates, I have >> >> * set a custom template dir path under Tools>Settings>Paths >> * added a symlink "stdtemplates" to the standard templates dir the

Re: User template directory

2017-01-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Freitag, den 20.01.2017, 16:30 -0500 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: > The File > New from Template... dialog defaults to listing > "standard"  > templates (in /usr/share/lyx/templates, at least on Ubuntu-like  > systems). The directory panel on the left, on my system, sports > icons  > for "Computer" an

Re: User template directory

2017-01-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 01/21/2017 12:20 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I'm puzzled. On my windows system, under Tools>Settings>Paths>Document templates I've simply entered the path to my user template directory -- it happens to be C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.2\templates New from

Re: User template directory

2017-01-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 01/21/2017 03:35 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: It has been brought up repeatedly, and I've looked into it several times. I suspected as much, hence my asking here before opening yet another ticket. The problem is that, astonishingly, there is no straightforward way to add custom items to Qt'

Re: User template directory

2017-01-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Samstag, den 21.01.2017, 11:23 -0500 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: >  I don't know much about Qt (besides how to spell it), but isn't that > the role of QFileDialog::setSidebarUrls? It should be. > Is there a problem with finding the correct URLs with which to > populate the panel? The problem is t

Re: User template directory

2017-02-28 Thread Helge Hafting
Den 21. jan. 2017 09:35, skrev Jürgen Spitzmüller: It has been brought up repeatedly, and I've looked into it several times. The problem is that, astonishingly, there is no straightforward way to add custom items to Qt's "places" widget (the "directory panel on the left"). Well, is it possib

Re: User template directory

2017-03-01 Thread Guenter Milde
Dear Helge, On 2017-02-28, Helge Hafting wrote: > Den 21. jan. 2017 09:35, skrev Jürgen Spitzmüller: >> It has been brought up repeatedly, and I've looked into it several >> times. The problem is that, astonishingly, there is no straightforward >> way to add custom items to Qt's "places" widget (