RE: Drag and drop image files to LyX

2012-06-08 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: Richard Heck [rgh...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 2:16 PM >Not at the moment, I don't think, though feel free to file an >enhancement request. It probably wouldn't be all that hard to make this >work. There is an enhancement request already filed that has a patch: http://www.lyx

Re: Drag and drop image files to LyX

2012-06-08 Thread Ray Rashif
On 9 June 2012 02:16, Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/08/2012 01:17 PM, Horacio Pérez wrote: >> >> Is it possible somehow to drag and drop image files to LyX? >> > Not at the moment, I don't think, though feel free to file an enhancement > request. It probably wouldn

Re: Drag and drop image files to LyX

2012-06-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/08/2012 01:17 PM, Horacio Pérez wrote: Is it possible somehow to drag and drop image files to LyX? Not at the moment, I don't think, though feel free to file an enhancement request. It probably wouldn't be all that hard to make this work. rh

Drag and drop image files to LyX

2012-06-08 Thread Horacio Pérez
Is it possible somehow to drag and drop image files to LyX?

Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1

2010-06-23 Thread Helge Hafting
On 22. juni 2010 18:11, Jose A. Rodrigo wrote: Hi!! First of all congratulations for this useful program and brilliant project!! It is not possible to drag-and-drop text (just by selecting it with mouse pointer) like other text processors i.e. OpenWriter. Do you know when this feature will be

Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I can't see any advantages for mouse drag-and-drop text against copy and paste with shortcuts. Perhaps only for those who are not touch-typists and used to using the pointy device for everything. Rich

Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1

2010-06-22 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > It is not possible to drag-and-drop text (just by > selecting it with > > mouse pointer) like other text processors i.e. > OpenWriter. Do you know > > when this feature will be added to lyx? I think that > it will be very > > useful for many users. It

Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1

2010-06-22 Thread Richard Heck
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 12:11:57 Jose A. Rodrigo wrote: Hi!! First of all congratulations for this useful program and brilliant project!! It is not possible to drag-and-drop text (just by selecting it with mouse pointer) like other text processors i.e. OpenWriter. Do you know when this

Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1

2010-06-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 12:11:57 Jose A. Rodrigo wrote: > Hi!! > > First of all congratulations for this useful program and brilliant > project!! > > It is not possible to drag-and-drop text (just by selecting it with > mouse pointer) like other text processors i.e. Op

Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1

2010-06-22 Thread Jose A. Rodrigo
Hi!! First of all congratulations for this useful program and brilliant project!! It is not possible to drag-and-drop text (just by selecting it with mouse pointer) like other text processors i.e. OpenWriter. Do you know when this feature will be added to lyx? I think that it will be very

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-08-06 Thread Johannes Knaus
Well, the thing with the shortcuts: Ubuntu: Ctrl+X == Mac: Cmd+X (=the Command-Key, old Mac users still call it "Apple-Key" although there is no Apple on it any more but a kind of knot) and so on. Ah: I just tried it in Lyx on MacOSX: Alt+arrow and Ctrl+arrow do the same thing in Lyx.

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-08-06 Thread Johannes Knaus
Am 06.08.2009 um 13:32 schrieb Nikos Alexandris: JFYI, gedit (GNOME's default text editor) has the Alt+Arrow(s) option to move selected line_s_ of text. I find it very convenient. Nikos This could be a nice alternative IMHO. Surely, another shortcut is needed, as Alt+Arrow is "jump to t

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-08-06 Thread Marcelo Acuña
>> "Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying >> things I have found with >>>> word processors. >>>> It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, >>>> and output garbage for people to read. > > I can't imagine how one

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-08-06 Thread Nikos Alexandris
JFYI, gedit (GNOME's default text editor) has the Alt+Arrow(s) option to move selected line_s_ of text. I find it very convenient. Nikos

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-08-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Johannes Knaus wrote: First of all, I simply didn't realize that mouse drag'n'drop did not work in Lyx and thought this could maybe a platform specific issue, not a general one. On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: "Drag and drop" text is one the mo

Re: Keyboard Centrism: was Drag and Drop

2009-08-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 1, Steve Litt did say: > You, my friend, are a prime candidate for two free software offerings I use > on > a daily, no, a minutely basis: Umenu and VimOutliner. <> > We keyboard types haven't gotten the respect we deserved ever since Windows > 3.0 raised it

Keyboard Centrism: was Drag and Drop

2009-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 01 August 2009 00:12:51 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > [rant-mode] > I might be a keyboard centric computer user who is always having > difficulty dealing with the point N click style "dogma" that seems > to say that if you make it easy for mouse centric users to click > instead of ke

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
this. I for one am glad many people use that technique, It means it's unlikely that LyX's keyboard control methods will be phased out any time soon. > Those who don't like drag and drop are not forced to use it, it would be just > another editing option (m

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 31 July 2009 12:20:27 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: > >> "Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things I have found with > >> word processors. > >> It is

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Johannes Knaus wrote: It certainly would be a problem, if implementing this feature really costs a lot of time. I simply don't know this as I'm not a programmer. To answer your question, this feature is straight forward to implement Hum... "this feature is *not* str

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Johannes Knaus wrote: It certainly would be a problem, if implementing this feature really costs a lot of time. I simply don't know this as I'm not a programmer. To answer your question, this feature is straight forward to implement as we have developed own text work area and do not rely on a

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Johannes Knaus
First of all, I simply didn't realize that mouse drag'n'drop did not work in Lyx and thought this could maybe a platform specific issue, not a general one. On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: "Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: "Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. I don't mean drag-n-drop

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: > "Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things I have found with > word processors. > It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage > for people to read. I don't mean drag-n-drop with

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
"Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. Nikos Alexandris wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:12 -0700, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > >>> Hell

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:12 -0700, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Maybe a stupid question: > > But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence with the > > mouse, but I cannot drag this selected sentence around in > > Lyx, e.g. placing it in the paragraph above. Everytime I try > > this

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Hello, > > Maybe a stupid question: > But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence with the > mouse, but I cannot drag this selected sentence around in > Lyx, e.g. placing it in the paragraph above. Everytime I try > this the sentence is deselected. With alt + arrow up (arrow down) you ge

Re: Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Ignacio Garc?a wrote: But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence with the mouse, but I cannot drag this selected sentence around in Lyx, e.g. placing it in the paragraph above. Everytime I try this the sentence is deselected. So, would this be a good idea to propose

Re: Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-29 Thread Ignacio García
Johannes Knaus wrote Wed, 29 Jul 2009 >>> But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence >>> with the mouse, but I cannot drag this selected >>> sentence around in Lyx, e.g. placing it in the >>> paragraph above. Everytime I try this the sentence >>> is deselected. > So, would this be a good id

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Johannes Knaus wrote: > So, would this be a good idea to propose this for future Lyx versions? There's already a feature request for this: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5643 Jürgen

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-29 Thread Johannes Knaus
nice feature. I'm quite used to it; in nearly all Applications I regularly use (even in the Editor I use for basic python scripts) I can do this internal drag and drop. How do others think about this?

RE: Drag and Drop

2009-07-29 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>Hello, > >Maybe a stupid question: >But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence >with the mouse, but I cannot drag this selected >sentence around in Lyx, e.g. placing it in the >paragraph above. Everytime I try this the sentence >is deselected. > >As I don't remember well: Is this behaviour e

Drag and Drop

2009-07-29 Thread Johannes Knaus
viour expected in Lyx or is it a bug? Do I have to press another button to drag and drop? OS: Mac OSX 10.5 (Intel) Lyx: 1.6.3 Thanks for your help. Johannes -- Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take m

Re: drag-and-drop with non-ascii characters

2005-09-11 Thread Pol
Roy Schestowitz wrote: Things appear to work fine when I copy accented text (tried Sørtun and Levänen) from Mozilla Firefox to LyX directly. Konqueror is inferior in terms of language support (Firefox can display Chinese, Arabic, Thai, etc.), so I suggest you try Firefox. Thank you Roy (and P

Re: drag-and-drop with non-ascii characters

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Flynn
Pol wrote: Hi, I was not able to copy a file by drag and drop from konqueror into the lyx editor, since the non-ascii character in the file name (an accented letter, in my case) is erased during the procedure. Is it possible to fix that? Non-ASCII characters in URIs should not be used

Re: drag-and-drop with non-ascii characters

2005-09-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Roy Schestowitz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was not able to copy a file by drag and drop from konqueror into >> the lyx editor, since the non-ascii character in the file name (an >> accented letter, in my case) is erased during the procedure. >> Is it possible to fix

Re: drag-and-drop with non-ascii characters

2005-09-11 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Sun 11 Sep 2005 12:18:31 BST, [Pol] wrote : \_ Hi, I was not able to copy a file by drag and drop from konqueror into the lyx editor, since the non-ascii character in the file name (an accented letter, in my case) is erased during the procedure. Is it possible to fix that? I do

drag-and-drop with non-ascii characters

2005-09-11 Thread Pol
Hi, I was not able to copy a file by drag and drop from konqueror into the lyx editor, since the non-ascii character in the file name (an accented letter, in my case) is erased during the procedure. Is it possible to fix that? I do not know if it is a lyx or kde related issue, so i am