Dear all, There are many different preferences that the user can customize. It is difficult to think about what is the best default preferences for the most amount of users. One way I've thought of to get an idea of this is to start collecting user's preferences. If we see that a lot of users have changed a certain preference, we might think about changing the default. Of course, for you this won't make much of a difference since you have that setting set anyway. But it could make a difference for the out-of-the-box experience of new LyX users.
Just to set realistic expectations, I would say that the chance of us changing a default preference are pretty low (see, for example, [1], for why this is complicated). In order to tak a rist, we need to have a lot of evidence about the average user; and since you are on a LyX mailing list that means you are not an average user in my opinion :). Preferences in particular that I'm curious about are: screen zoom continuous spellcheck math preview Before posting, please check your preferences file manually for any information that you prefer not to be made public. Your preferences are in a file called "preferences", stored in your user directory. To locate your user directory, see Help > About (I think on Mac this is LyX > About?). If you go to your user directory and there is no "preferences" file, that means that you have not changed any of the defaults. I still want to know in this case. If you could just respond "default", then that would be helpful. Please state your OS with the categories of Windows, Mac, or Linux. This is important because it is possible to have different default preferences on different platforms. Attached is my preferences file. Scott [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=CAO7dr0isQTesZ9cJeobrA0vYFr3ctUMA-JWTPDx677tjz286Ew%40mail.gmail.com
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