On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:57:12AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Bo Peng wrote: > > >>No it tells the user "please browse you hard disk to find a suitable > >>application". And it forgets to add "good luck". I do not see how > >>someone is going to think about installing gsview. > >> > >> > > > >Windows users may be incompetent, but not stupid. "No viewer found" is > >a *common* behavior whenever someone double clicks a file without a > >proper viewer. Any windows user knows that s/he needs a proper viewer > >to continue. > > > >In particular, your nothing there, install a program, re-configure, a > >menu item appear is quite *alien* to windows users. > > > > > Is it? This is the behaviour of an "upgrade". Upgrade > your software, and new menu entries appear. > Install excel - and word is suddenly able to include spreadsheets! > Well, don't know if they include a "new menu item" for that, > but adding cooperative software certainly add features in > other word processors too. > So install ghostview, and lyx is suddenly able to > view/export psotscript sounds reasonable to me.
But you need to reconfigure. This has bitten me with dvipng. It was not working and I removed it. But I still could not instant-preview because png format was still requested and it was not recognized by the legacy python script. So I patched it to also deal with png images. Eventually I understood that I had to reconfigure. I don't think that I am a stupid user but was nevertheless fooled by the reconfigure thing. -- Enrico