On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 09:34:40PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 09:07:35AM +1300, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > > On 21/11/2016 6:34 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > As an occasional user of branches, when I deactivate a branch I expect the > > state of insets in the branch to be left in their current state, some open, > > some closed, as the case may be. When I reactivate the branch I expect to > > recover that previous state. This seems to me the *minimal* assumption for > > LyX to make -- there was, presumably, good reason for the insets to be in > > that particular configuration. LyX should respect that when the branch is > > reactivated. > > Thanks for the feedback, Günter and Andrew. I propose two questions for > going forward: > > (1) Do others agree that LyX should be consistent and treat > activating/deactivating branches from right-clicking on a branch inset > the same as activating from Document Settings? > > (2) Which behavior should be changed? > > If the answer to (1) is "it is not inconsistent to treat those > situations differently", then we can just leave things as they are and > we don't need to change anything. If the answer is that we should change > one or the other to be consistent, then we need to debate (2). > > For (2), the code for document settings explicitly makes a point to > open/close the activated/deactivated branches, and it has been this way > for a very long time, from what I see. So the burden would be on us to > argue that changing it makes considerably more sense than changing the > right-click activate/deactivate. I'm not sure how to proceed in this > case. If other developers agree, we could ask on lyx-users to see what > they think. I think this is a perfect situation for taking a poll of > users.
I'm still looking for feedback on the above issue. Scott
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