Re: A prize for better looking Qt style sheets?

Stay on that soapbox.The imposition of ultra low contrast, gray on gray text is simply poor design with very little regard for legibility. It's not like we have an ink shortage. Lewis On Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 8:12:05 AM UTC+11, Terry Brown wrote: > > > ... thinking that everyone's

Re: Pyenchant does *not* work for Windows 64-bit systems

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 4:15 PM, lewis wrote: > Latest commit is not loading Leo for me. > File "N:\git\leo-editor\leo\commands\spellCommands.py", line 251, in read_words with open(fn, 'rb') as f: TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

Re: A prize for better looking Qt style sheets?

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Terry Brown wrote: We might need to specify what style we're looking for. Something more > like MS Office / Google Docs.? Sublime Text 2 maybe? The GitHub > Desktop interface? > ​Good point. I would like to leave that to potential

Re: Pyenchant does *not* work for Windows 64-bit systems

Latest commit is not loading Leo for me. It's not a complete crash; I have a Leo splash screen but nothing after that Leo 5.7b1, build 20180209145139, Fri Feb 9 14:51:39 CST 2018 Git repo info: branch = master, commit = ddb87d916eb3 Python 3.6.4, PyQt version 5.10.0 Windows 10 AMD64 (build

Re: A prize for better looking Qt style sheets?

On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 13:02:06 -0800 (PST) "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > Leo's look is very important, both as a lure to newbies and as a > source of joy (or otherwise) to experienced users. > > Terry suggests Leo's stodgy look could be improved with better Qt > style sheets.

A prize for better looking Qt style sheets?

Leo's look is very important, both as a lure to newbies and as a source of joy (or otherwise) to experienced users. Terry suggests Leo's stodgy look could be improved with better Qt style sheets. Surely we can do better, but I, with my geriatric eyes, am not the one to do it. Would

Re: The new default spell checker is ready for testing

On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 12:51:29 PM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: I should emphasize that Leo will use pyenchant automatically if it is > available. > > You can tell when the default checker is running because you will see > something like this in the console window: > > 9348 words in

Re: The new default spell checker is ready for testing

On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 12:49:11 PM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: #700: Create a default spell checker for when pyenchant is not available > is ready for > serious testing. > I should emphasize that Leo will use pyenchant

The new default spell checker is ready for testing

#700: Create a default spell checker for when pyenchant is not available is ready for serious testing. I have just upload the main spelling dict, main_spelling_dict.txt, to Leo/Miscellaneous on SourceForge

Re: There's no whinging about distribution

On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 10:15:15 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: Success! pyinstaller successfully creates a 32-bit version of Leo, based on > Python 2.7.14 and PyQt version 4.8.6. #710: Switching between Anaconda > installations >

There *will* be a Windows pyinstaller distro for Leo 5.7b2

The title says it all. The next release must be beta because of all the distribution-related work we have done recently. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

Re: There's no whinging about distribution

On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 10:53:04 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: Success! pyinstaller successfully creates a 32-bit version of Leo, based on Python 2.7.14 and PyQt version 4.8.6. #710: Switching between Anaconda installations

Re: ENB: possible improvements to javascript importer

On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 8:43:43 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: Rev e3d9636 improves js_i.starts_block as follows. It appears to work well. func_patterns = [ re.compile(r'\)\s*=>\s*\{'), re.compile(r'\bclass\b'), re.compile(r'\bfunction\b'), ] def starts_block(self, i,

Re: ENB: possible improvements to javascript importer

On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 12:01:27 PM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: We can see the problem in the electron "hello world" javascript code. The > importer fails to recognize these two event handlers: > > app.on('window-all-closed', () => { > // whatever > }) > > app.on('activate', () => {

Re: There's no whinging about distribution

On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 9:53:25 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > I've been guilty of this lately. > On multiple topics. This thread would better have been called, "There's no whinging in software development :-) Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Electron documentation on best practices for security

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 1:46 PM, David Szent-Györgyi wrote: To my knowledge, none of us earn a living working on Leo and related > projects, which means leveraging pre-existing code saves one the effort of > reimplementing that. > ​Heh. This is likely a valid principle even

Re: Distribute only 64-bit executables?

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 12:26 PM, David Szent-Györgyi wrote: > > This is the Windows analogue of the Debian GNU/Linux's Multiarch support > . > ​Many thanks for these lengthy comments. I've put a link to them at the start of #710

Re: Matt, how do I review your docs?

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:55 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: ​>> ​ it's extremely hard to see what the actual changes are/were in Leo. ​> ​ I was hoping you had some magic here! ​I'll copy the corresponding outline from master and your two branches to ekr.leo, my personal outline.

Re: There's no whinging about distribution

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 11:49:42 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > As discussed in the info item, it does not seem possible to downgrade from >> Qt 5 to Qt 4 in when installing