On 17/09/2018 09:32, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Am Montag, den 17.09.2018, 09:12 +0200 schrieb Daniel:
Hi,
FYI, on Windows 10 the non-native file dialog, activated with
\use_native_filedialog false,
causes a severe reduction in functionality. In particular, it does
not
show the custom quick access folders. I guess that is why it is not
turned on by default and might never be so.
However, I am wondering whether a number of sub-entries under the
New
and Open menu, like Libre Office, might be preferable to custom
dialogs.
For example, there could be
New >
Document (Ctl+N)
From Template... (Ctrl+Shift+N)
etc.
Open >
Browse... (Ctrl+O)
Documents...
Templates...
etc.
I am not fully sure about the right labels but could think more about
it
if desired.
See https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2396 (and other places in the mail
archives and the tracker) for lengthy discussions about this
By the way, is there a way in to open the file open dialog with a
certain path? I thought I just try out how bad my GUI suggestion is
first hand by creating an open menu and populate it with couple of
directories. I tried
file-open C:\
but with no success. There is also no feedback as to what might be
wrong. If it is not supported yet, maybe the "file-open" command could
check whether it's argument is a file or directory. If it is a file,
open it, and if it is a directory, open the file dialog from that
directory. (I doubt that people would want to open all files in a
directory, but that could still be taken care of by a third argument, like
file-open <directory> *
or so.)
Daniel
Jürgen
Daniel
