Am 21.03.2014 23:29, schrieb Stephan Witt:
Am 21.03.2014 um 20:56 schrieb Georg Baum <[email protected]>:
Exactly. I cannot understand why something working on Linux without any
problem - the in place upgrade of the .lyx user configuration - shouldn't
work on Windows or Mac OS X.
Because on Linux you are the boss of your system while on Windows you are often not. Even at my
university not everybody was allowed to install programs and e.g. at work there are on almost all
PCS several users because everybody can take every PC. When LyX is upgraded by the admin I don't
want to get the preferences of my colleague but mine of course. Assuring this is impossible at
installation time and during the first start of LyX too. How should LyX know if an existing
preference is a working one and the one used by the current user for LyX 2.0.x?
For example at work I use a network drive that is mapped so that I can grab the LyX settings I need
at any time from there.
What is with the cases that LyX 2.0.x was once installed and later on removed but the preferences
were not deleted?
You would open Pandora's box and I want to use y spare time for other things than to give support
when LyX cannot be configured or looks now different than expected.
Yes, and it's done on Mac OS X this way. The first configure run with an fresh
user preferences directory (no preferences present already) checks for existing
preferences from previous releases and copies them if present.
OK, and where do you look? On network drives as well as on the local disk. When something is found
how do you assure that this preferences file is a working one (does not contain paths that no longer
exists)?
regards Uwe
