Bennett Helm wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:23 AM, James Sutherland
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
I cannot get tabbed windows working on Mac for RC3. I had the same problem
with RC2. Each additional file I open will open in its own window (which is
a nice feature), but sometimes I would like to have them tabbed in the same
window...
Any other Mac users seeing this???
It's a feature, not a bug! Nonetheless, you can turn it off: LyX >
Preferences > Look and Feel > Open documents in tabs.
I did not even know this, I was just about to send him to bugzilla. ;-)
Should we maybe make this the default?
Otherwise, there is no intuitive way of getting a tabbed window. Whereas
for a new window, we have File->New Window.
All in all I have the feeling that multiple tabs/windows/views (and also
session management) are (at least on the Mac) not fully worked out, yet.
I feel like we miss an underlying concept when what opens where, and how
this is represented in the Gui/Menus.
For example, having multiple windows open, quitting lyx and reopening
opens all documents in a single window (tabbed). Also, drag&drop of tabs
between windows would be nice. In 1.5, a "new window" is a copy of the
old one (in terms of documents loaded), in 1.6 it is empty. If I load an
already open document in the new empty window, what do I get? What is on
disk or what is in the other window? (Not clear from the GUI.)
Admittedly, I have not used 1.6 too much until now (I am writing on my
thesis right now, so I don't dare switching to 1.6, yet.) So maybe I
simply have not understood the concept yet.
/Konrad
