sorry, it's me again with a feature, what else ... I have the newfloat feature run, which was started by Lars. I can create new floats with lists of them locally for documents and/or globally for all. anyway, there is one major problem which I solved through a hack.
the menus for insert->floats and insert->lists are build in MenuBackend.C, which uses the floatlist from FloatList.C. so far so good, but when this is done, lyx knows nothing about dirs and preferences, because lyxrc is build later. A hardcoded floatlist is ugly. so what can I do, when I want to read the newfloats from preferences or a single file??? Herbert