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

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