Piero Faustini schrieb:
I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common users
Why is it hard to use? You sing the mailing list and then get the emails as described here: http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists The whole list is archived at various websites.
A forum-like interface like Nabble would be much better but... why don't we use a normal forum site?
I don't see an advantage. At forums I always have to log in before I can post and I have to open the webpage to reply. That means I every time have to enable cookies in my browser, then enter my user name and password and then write afterwards I have to delete my browser history and disable cookies. With a mailing list I only have to subscribe once and get the emails whenever I want to. I can also store important mails at my PC, forward messages, compose messages out of several other ones, CC and BCC people, .... All this is not possible with a forum.
I think current (as past) LyX politic should be GO FOR THE AVERAGE USER, be simple and easy. Why LaTeX have a lot of forum sites, while LyX doesn't??? Lack of information or access to information is the worst (and senseless) way to discourage LyX users.
I think that LyX is one of the best documented projects and our user support is outstanding. When you have a problem with LyX you'll usually get a solution within a day or two. So I'm interested why you think LyX lacks information.
regards Uwe
