Re: Wishlist items - document templates
On 2010-02-04, Helge Hafting wrote: File-New from Template currently shows only templates in /usr/share/lyx/templates. The dialog ought to have a couple of shortcut buttons: system templates and private templates that goes directly to these two directories. Seconded. The reason is to have easy access to both the templates that comes with lyx, as well as self-made templates. Navigating the filesystem from one place to another is too cumbersome. For the time beeing, I use the following workaround: * Set the template directory to my private templates (LYXHOME/templates) in ToolsSettingsPaths. * Place a symlink to the system templates in my private templates Günter
Re: Wishlist items - document templates
On 2010-02-04, Helge Hafting wrote: > "File->New from Template" currently shows only templates in > /usr/share/lyx/templates. > The dialog ought to have a couple of shortcut buttons: "system > templates" and "private templates" that goes directly to these two > directories. Seconded. > The reason is to have easy access to both the templates that comes with > lyx, as well as self-made templates. Navigating the filesystem from one > place to another is too cumbersome. For the time beeing, I use the following workaround: * Set the template directory to my private templates (/templates) in Tools>Settings>Paths. * Place a symlink to the "system templates" in my "private templates" Günter
Wishlist items - document templates
File-New from Template currently shows only templates in /usr/share/lyx/templates. The dialog ought to have a couple of shortcut buttons: system templates and private templates that goes directly to these two directories. The reason is to have easy access to both the templates that comes with lyx, as well as self-made templates. Navigating the filesystem from one place to another is too cumbersome. I guess some users don't even know about the private template directory. :-/ Putting all templates in a single directory is not a solution either: * /usr/share/lyx/templates is normally not writeable for users, and it should not be either. But this makes it hard to add templates there. Especially for someone who isn't also a sysadmin. * Copying the system templates is not a good solution either. Several users doing that wastes space, and you never know when some system upgrade adds/changes the official templates. There is already a button that goes to the distributed templates, having one that goes to the private templates would be very helpful. Also, having a save as template menu would be nice. It would bring up the save as dialog, showing the user template directory by default. Saving as a template should automatically remove stuff not wanted in a template, i.e. the \fontscheme and \papersize mentioned in section 5.4 in the customization manual. (Those who want a template with a particular papersize can of course save a ordinary document instead.) Helge Hafting
Wishlist items - document templates
"File->New from Template" currently shows only templates in /usr/share/lyx/templates. The dialog ought to have a couple of shortcut buttons: "system templates" and "private templates" that goes directly to these two directories. The reason is to have easy access to both the templates that comes with lyx, as well as self-made templates. Navigating the filesystem from one place to another is too cumbersome. I guess some users don't even know about the private template directory. :-/ Putting all templates in a single directory is not a solution either: * /usr/share/lyx/templates is normally not writeable for users, and it should not be either. But this makes it hard to add templates there. Especially for someone who isn't also a sysadmin. * Copying the system templates is not a good solution either. Several users doing that wastes space, and you never know when some system upgrade adds/changes the official templates. There is already a button that goes to the distributed templates, having one that goes to the private templates would be very helpful. Also, having a "save as template" menu would be nice. It would bring up the "save as" dialog, showing the user template directory by default. Saving as a template should automatically remove stuff not wanted in a template, i.e. the \fontscheme and \papersize mentioned in section 5.4 in the customization manual. (Those who want a template with a particular papersize can of course save a ordinary document instead.) Helge Hafting
