Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>This suggests one way for LyX itself and for the Ports LyX >>installation to have avoided the problem, by making >>/usr/local/share/lyx/clipart and ~/.lyx/clipart be links to >>directories that are already on the correct Kpathsea search >>paths.
>I do not know, why should this be done universally for LyX itself. Here's a reason. If LyX is going to create directories whose name and whose provided contents (in the case of /usr/local/share/lyx/clipart) suggest that they are for commonly used graphic information, the directories should work. You can't even use platypus.eps from the global file by default, and the LyX distribution put it there! For LyX's own documentation to work, the installation has to put another copy of platypus.eps with the documentation files. If the directories are not going to be made to work within LyX, they shouldn't be created by LyX at all. It's that simple. >As I understand LyX it is not meant to be the tool for the most >stupidiest user ... No offense taken. :-) >For example, I do not want to have this done by deafult, because I >think that ~/.lyx/clipart has nothing to do with my images which are >somewhere else. A reasonable position. Perhaps then LyX shouldn't create ~/.lyx/clipart when you first run it. Why create useless cruft whose only effect is to waste users' valuable time? I don't really care if clipart is made to work or if it is removed, although I guess I prefer made to work. The important point is that being there and working ought to be strongly linked. You should get both or neither. -- M/S 258-5 | 1024-bit PGP fingerprint: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] NASA Ames Research Center | 41 B0 89 0A 8F 94 6C 59 | (650) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 | 7C 80 10 20 25 C7 2F E6 | FAX: (650) 604-4377 We each earn what freedom of speech we defend for those who most offend us.
