> On Thursday August 29 2002 12:40, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Schabell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Eric> No one here has any reaction to this? It's been two days....
>
> It seems we are busy :)
>
Ok, as a fellow free software developer I can understand that, just wanted to
shake the tree for a reaction! ;)
> Eric> Eric
>
> >> On Tuesday August 27 2002 16:28, Eric Schabell wrote: Hello,
> >>
> >> I am a long time user of lyx but am having the same sort of problem
> >> as was mentioned on the lists once about missing menu entries in
> >> the VIEW menu (for viewing as {ps|pdf|dvi|...}). I saw the problem
> >> this person was having was related to .lyx config files from 1.2.0
> >> being used with 1.2.1, so I removed ~/.lyx, tried reconfigure and
> >> still no enties.
> >>
> >> I played with the "lyx -dbg init" and playing with prefereneces
> >> (selecting gv and such in the gv conversion display section). This
> >> got me up to a HTML (after adding viewer as dillo), Latex (view as
> >> emacs) and Ascii (viewer as emacs) entries in VIEW menu.
> >>
> >> I am really not understanding why it can't find the entries for all
> >> the tools installed for conversions which are in the same place
> >> they have always been (/usr/bin); gv, xdvi, ps2<whatever>, etc....
>
> Not all system have the same programs at the same place. When did you
> last check that my tru64 system has gv in /usr/bin (hint: it does
> not).
>
But I thought it was possible to add your own viewers in the preferences? Such
as my preference for kde's kghostviw, so I put "/usr/bin/kghostview" in the
Postscript conversion section as viewer and it should then appear in the VIEW
menu right?
> We check for some programs, but obviously we miss some. If you want to
> help, you can send a list of possible viewers for each format, along
> with a discussion of how to order them.
>
Sure thing, will raise a bugzilla entry once I get this straight in my head...
before I understand I didn't want to open any silly bugs/feature requests
(hate it when they do that in our system).
> Currently it is not possible to use mozilla (which needs a complete
> file: URL), but it should not be difficult to fix.
>
> JMarc
>
Thanks for the time and work,
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