Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> I'm also annoyed by this and the reason is that LyX1.5svn scans all >> directories before opening the dialog. LyX 1.4.4 doesn't do this so >> the dialog pops up immediately. >> >> I'm sure that this is the reason because on my home PC, the dialog >> opens in 1.5svn after 1-2 seconds but at work 5-10 seconds are needed >> when I have connected network drives and also only 1-2 seconds when I >> disconnected the network drives. >> When using LyX 1.4.4 it makes no difference if the network drives are >> connected. >> >> I don't understand why LyX scans all directories because the network >> drives don't contain any LyX or third-party stuff needed by LyX or >> could this be a Qt bug in the file open dialog routine? > > Not a bug but perhaps a feature. Maybe there is some settings to pass > in our use of QFileDialog to disable this behaviour. Somebody ought to > read the docs... I don't see any such option, but then I don't see this behavior on Linux, either. The dialog opens up pretty much immediately, and I do have a networked directory under /home/rgheck/.
By the way, in experimenting, I tried opening the kluwer.lyx template, and I got a lyx2lyx error. Richard -- ================================================================== Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ ================================================================== Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
