Hi,
with the help of Bennett's install instructions, I compiled LyX 1.4.2
on my Intel Mac using gcc 4.0 and Qt 3.3.6. However, while testing
the Application, I noticed a problem with the menus and keyboard
shortcuts that seems to be identical to what has been reported by
A.S.Hodel in this earlier message:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg47044.html
(the upshot is that menu items in the LyX menu seem to be cyclically
shifted by one so that one cannot access the quit function at all,
whereas Command-, opens the About Box instead of the Preferences). I
wonder if there has ever been a resolution to that problem.
When I discovered this on my native build, I went back to Bennett's
PPC binary linked from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac, and saw that
this build has the same behavior. I also tried this with a clean new
user so that there couldn't have been any pollution from old LyX
or .lyx files anywhere. Then I checked the same binary on two PPC
macs and found that everything works just fine there. This means that
something strange is going on only on the Intel platform (the same
PPC binary behaves differently on PPC versus Intel, even though it
runs through Rosetta emulation when on Intel!)
It would be interesting to clarify if A.S.Hodel's analogous problem
happened on the PPC or on the Intel platform. I hope someone can help
narrow down the source of this weirdness... I've looked at the
standard.ui interface file and it seems to define all the menu items
properly. Somehow the mapping of the user input to the lyx function
is scrambled. Since the menus themselves look OK (e.g., Quit appears
where it should, with the Command-Q shortcut displayed next to it),
I'd suspect that this isn't directly a Qt issue.
Thanks,
Jens
