Re: middle-click to open child documents?

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 04:28:15PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 08/09/2016 02:03 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 4:56 AM, Scott Kostyshak  wrote:
> >> Dear LyX devs,
> >>
> >> The following behavior is shared by Firefox and Chromium:
> >>
> >> ctrl+left-click opens a tab but does not switch to it
> >> middle-click is the same as ctrl+left click
> >> shift+middle-click opens the tab and switches to it
> >>
> >> Since learning about middle-click to open tabs in browsers, I find it
> >> surprisingly convenient. I can lazily use one hand on the mouse for
> >> navigating and setting up tabs how I want them.
> >>
> >
> >> Currently in LyX, to open an included file I think the only way is to
> >> right-click and go to "Edit Included file". Would we want to allow the
> >> behavior described above for browsers for opening child documents in
> >> LyX?
> >>
> > I would find this useful and intuitive. I too find opening included
> > files via right-click like a cumbersome arrangement, and such a power
> > feature (middle-click) would only be used by those in the know. For
> > those who don't know it and do it by mistake, the consequences are
> > minor: the user can easily close the opened document.
> 
> Since the document is already open and just needs to be displayed, this
> takes little time, too.

Thanks for the additional feedback, Liviu and Richard. Unless we get
more feedback from others and arrive at some sort of consensus, I'm not
planning to do anything.

Scott


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Re: [LyX/master] Foils.lyx: fix output of author

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 07:40:01PM +, Guenter Milde wrote:

> The trac ticket can also be done before the decision: we know there is a bug
> so this can be reported.

True.

> > If we want a ctest, I suppose we could just check STDERR output from
> > exporting to LaTeX. I've actually been wondering if those would be good
> > tests for other reasons, but I imagine we'll pick up a lot of noise and
> > warnings we don't care about.
> 
> (If LaTeX runs without error (and hence also the ctest), 
> add the pattern in "unreliableTests" under the
> 
>   Sublabel: wrong_output
>   # 
>   # Export does not fail but the resulting document has errors.

But the output is not always wronge. Nonetheless, this might be the best
we can do for now.

Note that (in another part of this thread) I posted a patch to improve
things from the user perspective, I think.

Scott


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Re: [LyX/master] Try to fix #4889 in the right way

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:06:20PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 07/08/2016 à 05:44, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
> > Here is another one: the new page inset. See attached example. Can you
> > reproduce?
> 
> I tried a more radical approach now, where insets draw their background by
> default.
> It will catch other cases like VSpace. Tell me how it fares.

I took a quick look and it seems to work fine. I will let you know if I
come across any problems.

Scott


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Re: [LyX/master] Try to fix #4889 in the right way

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 07/08/2016 à 05:44, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :

Here is another one: the new page inset. See attached example. Can you
reproduce?


I tried a more radical approach now, where insets draw their background 
by default.

It will catch other cases like VSpace. Tell me how it fares.

JMarc

Doxygen pages updated on website

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

The subject says it all.

JMarc