Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>>> "Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes >>>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>> This would be a regression. >> >> Abdelrazak> batch mode is only for export up to now. Here there is no >> Abdelrazak> regression as the export function don't need any dialog. >> >> So when the debian installer that runs as root uses export to create >> documentation on the fly, your are 100% sure it is going to work >> without any problem? > > Maybe not 100% but I am quite confident that it will work if the > installation is done correctly. Could somebody try that please?
Well, I don't have the time. You changed that, so you have to prove that it is still OK. >> I think you are looking for trouble :) > > I am just trying to improve the experience of the typical user. The > typical user won't open a console to launch lyx (ether on Windows, Linux > or Mac), he will just double-click an icon. If there is a problem with > the sysdir or the userdir, he would have missed this useful information > entirely. > > But if you don't like it I can enable it only on Windows and Mac. No. These things should be identical on all platforms. We do have experts on windows who can use the commandline output (e.g. for creating debug logs), and we do also have linux users who do never see the commandline, so lyxerr vs. error dialog is not an OS question. It is clear that the current error handling is suboptimal, but if you change that please don't use a quick hack, but a solution that will satisfy both the users who do not know what a command line is, and also those who want error or debug output in the console. This is not trivial (or maybe the final solution is, but it requires some thinking). Simply replacing some lyxerr output with dialogs is _not_ the way to go, this simply shifts the annoyance from "normal users" to experts. In particular, I neither want to link tex2lyx against QTGui, nor do I want to be forced to have a valid DISPLAY environment vaariable when I run it. Since our goal is to get out 1.5.0 soon, and since this behaviour is like that for ages, I suggest that you revert this completely and live with the status quo, unless you find a really simple solution that does fit everybody. Things like http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3107 are far more important IMO. Georg
