I second this proposal. It is indeed very confusing the first time we open LyX under Windows, especially because it often takes a while to finish configuration. Even I know what it is doing in the background, sometimes I have to open the task manager to make sure the LyX process is really there.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > Has there been discussion on the possibility of configuring LyX as > part of the install process rather than after the install when LyX is > first opened? > > I'm thinking mainly of Windows, where currently there are reports of > the users being confused by opening LyX the first time and not seeing > any indication that LyX is running correctly and they restart their > computer after a minute assuming something is wrong. > > Are there disadvantages that I'm not seeing here? > > Scott
