Sven Schreiber wrote: > Well the result seems to be that nothing is happening. Don't get me > wrong, I have no right to demand any serious development work for free, > but then IMHO less conservatism with respect to the (easily changeable, > I assume) defaults is needed. I mean almost everybody seems to agree > that an all-lines-table as default is not good.
Everybody agrees. The reason why the default was not changed was twofold: Almost everybody wanted something else. There was no clear favorite. The other reason was that it is bad practice to change the UI two times in a short time. If you want progress with this then please think how a configurable system could work. That does not need any coding in the first step. I am almost sure that the result will be based on some GUI for creating the default, and a lyxrc setting or configuration file or template document or whatever where the actual default is stored. Once we are at this point it will be easy to implement at least the part that loads the configuration and change the table dialog to use it, so people who are really annoyed by the current default just need to fire up their text editor and can change it. A GUI for comfortably changing these things can still be done later. And of course you can compile LyX yourself and simply change the default in your private version, but I would prefer if you took the time and think about the better solution. Georg
