Enrico Forestieri wrote:
Please not. I don't want my screen cluttered with 10 windows if I have 10 documents opened at the same time, because I can only work with one at the same time. Having the option to have a new window is ok, though.
They don't have to be on your screen, you can minimize them.
Maybe a "Clone Window"?
Why? Isn't the X button enough?
But a way to create a new instance if so wanted.
Then please explain me how you will know which window belongs to which LyX process. If you don't know this difference, you can easily loose your data by clicking save in the wrong window. But even if there is a way to identify the different instances you are likely to make this error.
Now we have the possibility of multiple windows in a single instance, there is no need anymore to have multiple instances. Allowing only a single LyX process will make sure that there is only one version of the same document in memory (even though you can have multiple views of the same document), so you will never save the wrong version.
This is not aimed at you, Joost, but frankly I am tired with this kind of argumentation, which IMO is due to the lobotomization performed by Word & Co.
If we add a "New Window" feature with the same name but totally different from all major office application, that's not going to make things more clear for the users.
The most important thing is however that we need to think about all the results of adding such a new feature. If it becomes possible to have multiple LyX processes with multiple windows thing become very confusing.
Joost
