Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Nico Williams wrote: >>> textual user, I prefer everything as textual as possible. I'd even >>> like a search feature for menus/functions, and in gener

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Nico Williams wrote: >> textual user, I prefer everything as textual as possible. I'd even >> like a search feature for menus/functions, and in general I'd like >> > That's a good idea and easy to pull-off: P

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > textual user, I prefer everything as textual as possible. I'd even > like a search feature for menus/functions, and in general I'd like > That's a good idea and easy to pull-off: Put in a search box that will filter UI-elements given a keywor

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread Nico Williams
Since we're piling on... I don't mind the sort of ribbon menu as they've evolved to be at MSFT, but I do prefer pull-down menus with *text* instead of icons. I'm a textual user, I prefer everything as textual as possible. I'd even like a search feature for menus/functions, and in general I'd lik

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread katsumi liquer
As someone who routinely uses LyX on different platforms between Mac OS X and Windows 7 I just wanted to say that I think the LyX interface is beautiful. It strikes a great balance of feeling native and attractive on all platforms in my opinion, and with the higher resolutions many displays have th

Option key as meta (OS X) broken in 2.0.5.1?

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Menzel
Greetings LyX folk: As one who has Emacs keybindings solidly hardwired into muscle memory after 20+ years, I rely on the use of the Option key on the Apple keyboard to be used as an Emacs meta key in LyX. This appears to be broken in 2.0.5.1 — it works fine in 2.0.5. Looking through the archives s

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread EK
PLEASE DO NOT CONSIDER RIBBON MENUS-- they are (one of the many) reason(s) I switched from MS-WORD to Lyx in the first place! They hide what you are looking for! Ehud Kaplan On 04/07/2013 04:05 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Pers