Hi!
the first part of this patch adds TOC, ViewFormats, UpdateFormats, and
ExportFormats to Gnome menu. TOC is updated by "Refresh" button, as
suggested by Jürgen earlier.
The second part of this patch resulted from the discussion on LyX user
interface. I've added a possibility to ask user for information using a
special area in the main window. For example, if you want to insert a new
URL or Index then after selecting the command from menu or by keyboard
shortcut the main window will split into two parts (LyX buffer and action
area) with dialog appearing in action area. This area is closed if you
(a) type URL, <tab>, name and hit <Enter> or OK button; (b) press <Escape>
or "Cancel" button; (c) some other "action" (insert Index) will be
selected. I would like to use this approach for dialogs that may appear
quite often during a typing process (FormIndex, FormUrl, FormRef,
FormCitation and others). It seems to me that this approach leads to
faster typing since it allows you to do all your work by keyboard only and
it doesn't cover your main text with the dialog.
I've rewritten completely FormUrl and FormIndex. FormCitation works only
in one mode: insert new citation. This dialog asks for keyword(s) or
regular expression and then displays all the citations witch match your
search string. It would be nice to get some feedback from people
interested in Gnome frontend...
Finally, is there any way to select Inset by keyboard only. I can move
into math-mode or tabular or figure float by just moving around with arrow
keys. However, if I move around Inset then all I can achieve is to have a
cursor before or after inset. Wouldn't that be nice to have "selected"
mode for insets where I can hit Enter to edit it?
Marko
gnome.actionarea.patch.gz
