Re: [LyX master] Hungarian Tutorial.lyx: revert last change

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: On 2013-04-10, Kornel Benko wrote: Therefore explicitly setting the default for _this_ document is OK IMHO. Agreed. OK, I committed this at 18f5500a. There were two explicit +1's and Uwe says the document should be

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

2013-04-12 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 11/04/13 21:04, Liviu Andronic wrote: Sounds great. Would you mind registering on Google Melange? Done. I dropped a few of the proposed ideas on http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas#sDevel.SummerOfCode2013Ideas but of course I don't mean to mentor more than 1 project. Also,

Re: GSoC: On being a mentor

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
12/04/2013 03:59, Cyrille Artho: (5) Time commitment. This depends on the abilities of the student, and also on the time zone difference (there is less you can do if the student is eight hours away). Early on in the project, one hour per day or even more is common, so make sure you have enough

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
12/04/2013 03:38, Cyrille Artho: If possible, I would favor reusing existing UI elements as much as possible (which probably means a Qt scroll bar). The reason for this is that a user instantly knows what to expect, and that the elements will have a look and feel that corresponds to the target

Re: GSoC: On being a mentor

2013-04-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: 12/04/2013 03:59, Cyrille Artho: (5) Time commitment. This depends on the abilities of the student, and also on the time zone difference (there is less you can do if the student is eight hours away). Early on in

Re: gsoc2013

2013-04-12 Thread Евгений Лежнин
Thank you for the advice 12.04.2013 11:52, Cyrille Artho пишет: Dear Evgenii, You may submit two project proposals if you wish. The choice of the project is yours. Think about what project appeals to you the most, and also think about concrete steps to get towards the project goals. Try to

Re: gsoc2013

2013-04-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Evgenii, On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Евгений Лежнин z_lezh...@mail2000.ru wrote: Hi, I'm Evgenii, I'm student and wish to participate in gsoc. I have been worked on different projects using C++ and Qt for 3 years. I would like to participate with UI Improvements and non-linear

Re: GSoC: On being a mentor

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
12/04/2013 11:32, Liviu Andronic: Given the nr of projects that Google will actually accept, I think that in principle it will be possible to have two (or maybe three) mentors for the same project. Plus lyx-devel. And we always have Scott and Cyrille to back up in case of unexpected commitments.

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
11/04/2013 17:15, Hashini Senaratne: Today I installed QT4 dev tools and QT4 designer. But when I tried to open the file /lib/ui/default.ui it gave an error: The file /lib/ui/default.ui is not a valid Designer UI file. Do you want to update the file location or generate a new form? If you have

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Hashini Senaratne
Hello Scott, Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org writes: Commenting out lines of code sounds like a great technique for learning. I had never thought about that! That was because I am new to this and could not identified specific places with related code. I will promise you that I will improve

Re: Interested in GSOC Project:

2013-04-12 Thread Hashini Senaratne
Hello Cyrille, Cyrille Artho c.artho at aist.go.jp writes: * have buttons with arrows in the left and right margin or (since these margins are currently thin) maybe buttons that appear as needed when the mouse if over the problematic inset. I think this option will not much

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

2013-04-12 Thread stefano franchi
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: I dropped a few of the proposed ideas on http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas#sDevel.SummerOfCode2013Ideas but of course I don't mean to mentor more than 1 project. Also, for the interactivity projects,

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Hashini Senaratne
Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org writes: If we are going to implement the buttons, I think we need to indent a slight amount horizontally for one click? Is that the same idea that had in your mind? If the click on this button, shows us the end (edge) of the object,

Re: Interested in GSOC Project:

2013-04-12 Thread Hashini Senaratne
Hello Pavel, Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org writes: Bingo, they are no way related to QT and I suspect they had .ui extension before LyX had QT graphical frontend at all. We do the layout manually in the code, search for strings like menu, toolbar or shortcut in the code :) Thank you Pavel for

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 12/04/2013 17:47, Hashini Senaratne a écrit : I also thought before implement moving for several rows, we should start with a single row. You have mentioned that 'move the row when the cursor moves'. What I understood was, first we are going to try to move a row. But did you meant that the

Re: Re: Python detection

2013-04-12 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 11 April 2013 10:59:47 Pavel Sanda wrote: I think that long term solution was rather to switch to Python 3. But all such talk is cheap, we need patches Pavel The first step is to raise the supported python to version 2.7 and then the transition will be easy. That was the whole

Re: Re: Python detection

2013-04-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: Are we there at that point? You are the pythonist here :) P

Re: [LyX master] Avoid check mistakenly current folder for .git/.svn/.CVS, when going up the path checking for parents.

2013-04-12 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 11.04.2013 um 11:39 schrieb Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org: On 11/04/13 06:21, Stephan Witt wrote: Avoid check mistakenly current folder for .git/.svn/.CVS, when going up the path checking for parents. Why do you think it's a mistake to check the current folder for .git or .svn?

Re: Re: Re: Python detection

2013-04-12 Thread José Matos
On Friday 12 April 2013 12:35:57 Pavel Sanda wrote: You are the pythonist here P :-) The issue is what is the minimum version of python that we want to support. If we decide to stay with python 2 as the default version the question then becomes what is the minimum version we want to

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 10 April 2013 22:05:09 Scott Kostyshak wrote: I tried to test docbook_article with db2pdf and I get errors. Here are a few: openjade:/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.n10355/lyx_tmpbuf2/docbook_article.sgml:113:68:E: element DUMMY undefined

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/10/2013 10:01 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, José Matos jama...@lyx.org wrote: The sgmltools (that I don't have installed) will most probably use the latex way so I agree with you that the ps backend is the way to go (even if in the end it is the same

Re: Interested in contributing in some project.

2013-04-12 Thread stefano franchi
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Puja Singh singh.puja.07...@gmail.comwrote: Hi! Am sorry for bothering you so soon again,but I somehow managed to fix the problem! Now I have successfully setup the devlopers environment in my machine. :) So,kindly guide me further towards working with your

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the DUMMY references (pun intended). :-D Dunno how much related but I remember docbookdummy problem reported in bug tracker. Pavel

Re: Re: Re: Python detection

2013-04-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: So these are the facts. The question then is how do we want to proceed? I thought we want to be 3.0 compatible and ditch 2.x series completely(?). Otherwise it looks like just maintenace burden without profit. What's the status of python 3 on fedora/debian/suse? Pavel

GSoC -- Interested in Layout Editor Project

2013-04-12 Thread Alexander Nord
Hi, I'm Alex. I'm a junior at Reed College in Portland, OR. I think what you guys are doing sounds awesome, and I'd love to apply to take on the Layout Editor project. I've never done GSoC (or, for that matter any professional programming) before, and I'm feeling a little daunted approaching

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM, José Matos jama...@lyx.org wrote: On Wednesday 10 April 2013 22:05:09 Scott Kostyshak wrote: I have different errors since I only have docbook 4.5 installed. The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the DUMMY references (pun intended). :-D I

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote: On 04/10/2013 10:01 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, José Matos jama...@lyx.org wrote: The sgmltools (that I don't have installed) will most probably use the latex way so I agree with you that the

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org writes: Yes, it will probably take a lot of time. I think that doing whatever is the most fun/ least frustrating to get to know the code is the best. That could mean trying to

Re: [LyX master] Hungarian Tutorial.lyx: revert last change

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2013-04-10, Kornel Benko wrote: >> Therefore explicitly setting the default for _this_ document is OK IMHO. > > Agreed. OK, I committed this at 18f5500a. There were two explicit +1's and Uwe says the document should

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

2013-04-12 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 11/04/13 21:04, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Sounds great. Would you mind registering on Google Melange? Done. I dropped a few of the proposed ideas on http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas#sDevel.SummerOfCode2013Ideas but of course I don't mean to mentor more than 1 project. Also,

Re: GSoC: On being a mentor

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
12/04/2013 03:59, Cyrille Artho: (5) Time commitment. This depends on the abilities of the student, and also on the time zone difference (there is less you can do if the student is eight hours away). Early on in the project, one hour per day or even more is common, so make sure you have enough

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
12/04/2013 03:38, Cyrille Artho: If possible, I would favor reusing existing UI elements as much as possible (which probably means a Qt scroll bar). The reason for this is that a user instantly knows what to expect, and that the elements will have a look and feel that corresponds to the target

Re: GSoC: On being a mentor

2013-04-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 12/04/2013 03:59, Cyrille Artho: > >> (5) Time commitment. This depends on the abilities of the student, and >> also on the time zone difference (there is less you can do if the >> student is eight hours away).

Re: gsoc2013

2013-04-12 Thread Евгений Лежнин
Thank you for the advice 12.04.2013 11:52, Cyrille Artho пишет: Dear Evgenii, You may submit two project proposals if you wish. The choice of the project is yours. Think about what project appeals to you the most, and also think about concrete steps to get towards the project goals. Try to

Re: gsoc2013

2013-04-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Evgenii, On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Евгений Лежнин wrote: > Hi, I'm Evgenii, I'm student and wish to participate in gsoc. I have been > worked on different projects using C++ and Qt for 3 years. I would like to > participate with "UI Improvements and non-linear

Re: GSoC: On being a mentor

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
12/04/2013 11:32, Liviu Andronic: Given the nr of projects that Google will actually accept, I think that in principle it will be possible to have two (or maybe three) mentors for the same project. Plus lyx-devel. And we always have Scott and Cyrille to back up in case of unexpected commitments.

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
11/04/2013 17:15, Hashini Senaratne: Today I installed QT4 dev tools and QT4 designer. But when I tried to open the file /lib/ui/default.ui it gave an error: "The file /lib/ui/default.ui is not a valid Designer UI file. Do you want to update the file location or generate a new form?" If you have

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Hashini Senaratne
Hello Scott, Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: > Commenting out lines of code sounds like a great technique for > learning. I had never thought about that! That was because I am new to this and could not identified specific places with related code. I will promise you that I will improve on

Re: Interested in GSOC Project:

2013-04-12 Thread Hashini Senaratne
Hello Cyrille, Cyrille Artho aist.go.jp> writes: > > > * have buttons with arrows in the left and right margin or (since > these margins are currently thin) maybe buttons that appear as > needed when the mouse if over the problematic inset. > >>> > >>> I think this option will not

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

2013-04-12 Thread stefano franchi
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > I dropped a few of the proposed ideas on > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas#sDevel.SummerOfCode2013Ideas > > but of course I don't mean to mentor more than 1 project. Also, for the > interactivity

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Hashini Senaratne
Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lyx.org> writes: > > If we are going to implement the buttons, I think we need to indent a slight > > amount horizontally for one click? Is that the same idea that had in your > > mind? If the click on this button, shows us the end (edge) of the object, > > that

Re: Interested in GSOC Project:

2013-04-12 Thread Hashini Senaratne
Hello Pavel, Pavel Sanda lyx.org> writes: > Bingo, they are no way related to QT and I suspect they had .ui extension > before LyX had QT graphical frontend at all. > We do the layout manually in the code, search for strings like menu, toolbar > or shortcut in the code :) Thank you Pavel for

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 12/04/2013 17:47, Hashini Senaratne a écrit : I also thought before implement moving for several rows, we should start with a single row. You have mentioned that 'move the row when the cursor moves'. What I understood was, first we are going to try to move a row. But did you meant that the

Re: Re: Python detection

2013-04-12 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 11 April 2013 10:59:47 Pavel Sanda wrote: > I think that long term solution was rather to switch to Python 3. > But all such talk is cheap, we need patches > Pavel The first step is to raise the supported python to version 2.7 and then the transition will be easy. That was the whole

Re: Re: Python detection

2013-04-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: > Are we there at that point? You are the pythonist here :) P

Re: [LyX master] Avoid check mistakenly current folder for .git/.svn/.CVS, when going up the path checking for parents.

2013-04-12 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 11.04.2013 um 11:39 schrieb Tommaso Cucinotta : > On 11/04/13 06:21, Stephan Witt wrote: >>> Avoid check mistakenly current folder for .git/.svn/.CVS, when going up >>> the path checking for parents. >> >> Why do you think it's a mistake to check the current folder for

Re: Re: Re: Python detection

2013-04-12 Thread José Matos
On Friday 12 April 2013 12:35:57 Pavel Sanda wrote: > You are the pythonist here > P :-) The issue is what is the minimum version of python that we want to support. If we decide to stay with python 2 as the default version the question then becomes what is the minimum version we want to

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 10 April 2013 22:05:09 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I tried to test docbook_article with db2pdf and I get errors. Here are a few: > > openjade:/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.n10355/lyx_tmpbuf2/docbook_article.sgml:113:68:E: > element "DUMMY" undefined >

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/10/2013 10:01 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, José Matos wrote: The sgmltools (that I don't have installed) will most probably use the latex way so I agree with you that the ps backend is the way to go (even if in the end it is the same

Re: Interested in contributing in some project.

2013-04-12 Thread stefano franchi
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Puja Singh wrote: > Hi! > Am sorry for bothering you so soon again,but I somehow managed to fix the > problem! > Now I have successfully setup the devlopers environment in my machine. :) > So,kindly guide me further towards working

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: > The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the "DUMMY" > references (pun intended). :-D Dunno how much related but I remember docbook problem reported in bug tracker. Pavel

Re: Re: Re: Python detection

2013-04-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: > So these are the facts. The question then is how do we want to proceed? I thought we want to be >3.0 compatible and ditch 2.x series completely(?). Otherwise it looks like just maintenace burden without profit. What's the status of python 3 on fedora/debian/suse? Pavel

GSoC -- Interested in Layout Editor Project

2013-04-12 Thread Alexander Nord
Hi, I'm Alex. I'm a junior at Reed College in Portland, OR. I think what you guys are doing sounds awesome, and I'd love to apply to take on the "Layout Editor" project. I've never done GSoC (or, for that matter any professional programming) before, and I'm feeling a little daunted approaching

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM, José Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 10 April 2013 22:05:09 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I have different errors since I only have docbook 4.5 installed. > > The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the "DUMMY" > references (pun intended).

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/10/2013 10:01 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, José Matos wrote: >>> >>> The sgmltools (that I don't have installed) will most probably use the >>> latex >>> way so I

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: >> Yes, it will probably take a lot of time. I think that doing whatever >> is the most fun/ least frustrating to get to know the code is the >> best. That could mean trying to