Re: xforms input field display bug (Re: [PATCH] Branch/Note, finally:-))

2003-07-07 Thread Garst R. Reese
Rob Lahaye wrote: Aaah, I see. Yes, I do remember vague a problem like this, when I was reducing the height of all widgets from 30 to 20; 20 was too small, so it became 25. The latter seemed to work for all of us. (I haven't done all dialogs yet, some are still at 30 pix style). So the 25

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:26:03AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What will happen, in reality, is that a handful of users will build linked binaries and distribute them to others. Some of this may fall within the dubious inside-the-same-organization GPL exemption, but most will not. You

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:41:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you say below, users on the Windows platform building binaries linked to the QT non-commercial windows toolkit, and distributing them, will be breaking the LyX GPL license. You are right, but the critical point is

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:55:51AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, there certainly have been major improvements in the source code, lots of clean up, etc. The GUII effort, as you call it. But you'd be hard pressed to offer a host of significant new features, from the user's

Re: [patch] more signals

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:02:33AM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: And how does calling BufferView through FuncRequest (through/passing BufferView again) leads to cleaner code as opposed to calling it directly? *shrug* Perhaps it doesn't. And what's your

Re: xforms input field display bug (Re: [PATCH] Branch/Note, finally :-))

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:37:59AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: Yes, I do remember vague a problem like this, when I was reducing the height of all widgets from 30 to 20; 20 was too small, so it became 25. The latter seemed to work for all of us. Aerm... did I mention the preamble dialog is _far_

Re: [patch] introduce namespace lyx::insets

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:58:46AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: This patch introduces namespace lyx::insets. both xforms and qt are handled. Couldn't we settle for a flat 'lyx' namespace? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Michael Schmitt
John Levon wrote: perhaps unsurprisingly i am all for it Me too. I'm with Edwin and John for the practical reasons Edwin already pointed out. It might sound egoistic, but a native win port would just make my life much easier. So if you change your mind and need my ok you'll

Re: [patch] introduce namespace lyx::insets

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:58:46AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | This patch introduces namespace lyx::insets. both xforms and qt are | handled. | | Couldn't we settle for a flat 'lyx' namespace? I'd really, really rather not. Once we have all

Re: [patch] introduce namespace lyx::insets

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:23:19AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:58:46AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | This patch introduces namespace lyx::insets. both xforms and qt are | handled. | | Couldn't we settle for

Re: xforms input field display bug (Re: [PATCH] Branch/Note, finally:-))

2003-07-07 Thread Rob Lahaye
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:37:59AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: Yes, I do remember vague a problem like this, when I was reducing the height of all widgets from 30 to 20; 20 was too small, so it became 25. The latter seemed to work for all of us. Aerm... did I mention the

Re: [patch] introduce namespace lyx::insets

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:23:19AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:58:46AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | This patch introduces namespace lyx::insets. both xforms

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Michael Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I would also like to see some native Windows port. With xforms and | X-Window, we will never penetrate the Window world. Has that ever been a goal? | I would also like to see one site (i.e. www.lyx.org) that provides | binaries for all platforms

Re: [patch] introduce namespace lyx::insets

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:37:36AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | lyx::InsetCode would do for me personally. with lyx::insets::Code you could use just Code in a lot of places. I know. But even if I am a big fan of short names in the short range, I find them confusing on a long distance,

Re: xforms input field display bug (Re: [PATCH] Branch/Note, finally :-))

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:37:31PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: But to your preamble problem: I still don't understand why you have such problems with simply stretching up the preamble dialog in the direction you need (longer lines and/or more lines). I can, but this takes time. Why is resizing

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
larry == larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: larry The problem here is not with the GPL, but with the Trolltech larry business model and licensing practices, which puts open source larry applications under the GPL in this untenable position if larry developers wish to release Windows versions.

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Michael == Michael Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael I would also like to see some native Windows port. With Michael xforms and X-Window, we will never penetrate the Window Michael world. Of course it would be nice. But I tend to think (after some hesitation) that we should just stick

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:09:11AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: That is how this discussion started. However, there is little point in hosting Ruurd's source and binaries if we do not want to distribute these binaries. Of course, if the goal changed to having a Qt/X11 binary for windows,

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:17:49AM +0200, Andre' Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:09:11AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: That is how this discussion started. However, there is little point in hosting Ruurd's source and binaries if we do not want to distribute these binaries. Of

Re: Updated [Re: [PATCH] Branch/Note, finally :-)]

2003-07-07 Thread Michael Schmitt
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that your approach mixes at least two different concepts which should be separated: I. Insets that show/hide parts of the document - i.e. Branch, Comment, Note, Greyedout - Can contain very large contents up to a complete

[patch] insettext, resend

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
No known problems. [John, that should make you start...] Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...) Index: lyxtext.h

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we should distribute the source, but not the binaries. Andre ... of the 'native' version I mean. Well, distributing the sources of the native version without the binaries is really hypocritical, I think. If these source do not have any

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:53:54AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we should distribute the source, but not the binaries. Andre ... of the 'native' version I mean. Well, distributing the sources of the native version without the

Re: LyX/Aqua bug

2003-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Ronald == Ronald Florence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ronald On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 08:18 AM, John Levon wrote: A user has pointed out that the LyX (Qt/MacOSX) port to the Aqua interface crashes abruptly if the Navigate menu is clicked while viewing the Tutoral. I confirmed the bug.

Re: LyX/Aqua bug

2003-07-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - it seems that I cannot get reconfigure to work, but since I cannot see the console output, I do not know what is wrong. Do you know how it is possible to get this output? Running configure by hand from the .lyx directory works, however. On my OSX, there is

Re: Updated [Re: [PATCH] Branch/Note, finally :-)]

2003-07-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Michael Schmitt wrote: I am a bit confused. I thought we agreed that each branch/note inset should have two properties that correspond to I. and II. above. That means, in the document dialog, you can both activate/deactive an inset _and_ define its position (or, more general, its appearance)

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:05:23AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: That's really bad. No, I think this is just a new superficial mess completely independent of 'real' internal changes. However, as this can be rectified by editing lib/ui/default.ui with a simple text editor before releasing

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Ruurd == Ruurd Reitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ruurd Anyway, there's also scenario: Ruurd d) Create a Win32 X11 Qt lib from the GPL'ed free edition. Use Ruurd that for development distribution. Let the user add the Ruurd 'win32 window system' Qt library. Ruurd How does that sound? I think

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:46:22PM +0100, Ruurd Reitsma wrote: I think there are only three clean solutions: (a) Provide detailed instruction how to build LyX/Qt on Windows, but do not distibute prebuild binaries. No need to ask contributors for that. (b) Choose a new

Re: [patch] insettext, resend

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:40:25AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: No known problems. [John, that should make you start...] Can you please wait until at least Wednesday ... regards john

Re: [patch] introduce namespace lyx::insets

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:54:31AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: | This patch introduces namespace lyx::insets. both xforms and qt are | handled. | | Why this sudden fad for making the code harder to read for no apparent | purpose ?? *plonk* ?? Maybe you want the question recast:

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andre How do you add some 'win32 window system library' without Andre linking LyX? I.e. what's the benefit over 'just giving sources Andre and compile instructions'? (Legally, it sound ok to me...) Qt/X11 for win32 is GPL. JMarc

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:56:42PM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:05:23AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: That's really bad. No, I think this is just a new superficial mess completely independent of 'real' internal changes. However, as this can be rectified by

Re: compilation problem with Trolltech MacOSX/GPL QT libraries

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:32:44AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: | On an ideal world, I don't see the point of the lyx:: namespace. except when used to protect against our own pollution of the global namespace. For example ? When the LyX code has some clients maybe, but until then we

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:04:55PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andre How do you add some 'win32 window system library' without Andre linking LyX? I.e. what's the benefit over 'just giving sources Andre and compile instructions'?

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:11:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Your constant (*far* too late) whining about this is starting to annoy me, I must admit. Good. OK, then I shall ignore you entirely on this topic. Especially as you are too lazy to do the groundwork to argue your case. john

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:18:31PM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:11:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Your constant (*far* too late) whining about this is starting to annoy me, I must admit. Good. OK, then I shall ignore you entirely on this topic. I guess

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Contrary to the 'mathed font change nightmare', there seem to be users | (other than myself) complaining about the seemingly randomly shifted menu | items. If you check you might see a coincidence of most of my whining with | some user complaining about

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andre On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:04:55PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Andre wrote: Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andre How do you add some 'win32 window system library' without Andre linking LyX? I.e. what's the benefit over

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
Entirely wasting my time, but ... On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:33:10PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: I guess you'd hear me as soon anybody tries to _release_ 1.4.0 like this. Are you seriously stating you'll veto this ? AFAIK you don't have this right over the menus. Especially as you are too

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:48:02PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre Ok, but if some user want to 'change the library' he'd need to Andre re-link LyX, doesn't he? And that would mean at least a working Andre linker, which is less than a full-blown compiler + autotool + Andre ..., but

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andre On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:48:02PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Andre wrote: Ok, but if some user want to 'change the library' he'd Andre need to re-link LyX, doesn't he? And that would mean at least a Andre working linker, which is less than

Re: LyX/Aqua bug

2003-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jean-Marc == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Marc Yes, I noticed the problem this week end and I know what Jean-Marc the problem is. I will try to send you an alternative patch Jean-Marc today. Other things that I noticed: Can you try the following alternative patch? It does

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:49:06PM +0100, John Levon wrote: Entirely wasting my time, but ... On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:33:10PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: I guess you'd hear me as soon anybody tries to _release_ 1.4.0 like this. Are you seriously stating you'll veto this ? AFAIK you

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:57:31PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre I thought Ruurd offered (d) as a clean way for us but with less Andre hassle for the user than in the other 'clean' solution. I was Andre just trying to say that the hassle for the user is not much Andre less than to

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:23:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz spake thusly: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:53:54AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: ... However, if it appears that Ruurd's code can help building a Mingw/X11 version of LyX (which would be lighter than a cygwin version and better

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:04:14AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: larry I was rather shrill about the QT effort, in particular. In larry light of Trolltech's dual support for Unix and Windows, the QT larry frontend has always seemed destined to run aground on precisely larry this issue

The qt-3.1.2 menu crash

2003-07-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
I am just trying to debug the crash with the qt submenu and keyboards with the help of Trolltech, who cannot (yet) reproduce the crash, though. Just to exclude some weirdness on my system, can some of you who also see the crash try to reproduce it with the attached example app? You have to

Re: The qt-3.1.2 menu crash

2003-07-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I can reproduce the crash with the example on any except the second item of the menu. E.g. Alt+M--Alt+b--Right Arrow crashes, while Alt+M--Alt+u--Right Arrow does not. And the reason is, obviously, the duplicated shortcut of that item (S_u_bmenu2 vs. Submen_u_7).

Trolltech's confirmation [was: Re: The qt-3.1.2 menu crash]

2003-07-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
So let's hope that there will be qt-3.1.3 soon... Juergen -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: [Issue N25747] qt 3.1.2 submenu crash Date: Montag, 7. Juli 2003 16:53 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Juergen Now I can reproduce it.

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:15:08AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: [...] is bad because people might break the rules? Any situation that predictibly makes violations of the GPL into standard practice is, indeed, bad. That's an indictment of Troll Tech's practices, not LyX or QT development by

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:37:45AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: So what you are actually proposing is that the current developers or whoever distributes LyX (including Kayvan, the Linux distributors etc) take some legal risk just for the benefit of a random Windows user that's neither able to

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Ruurd Reitsma
--- Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre I thought Ruurd offered (d) as a clean way for us but with less Andre hassle for the user than in the other 'clean' solution. I was Andre just trying to say that the hassle for the user is not much Andre less than to let him compile and

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | There is consensus amongst everybody except you. That includes Lars and | JMarc. If consensus include I can live with it, then ok. -- Lgb

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:05:23AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Because LyX without the 'GUII effort' and further cleanups is in a state where adding new features is very difficult. Moreover, even if adding a new feature turns out to be possible it most likely adds to the current mess and

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I've heard the canard of feature bloat from some. | | I'd take a few more menu items over boatloads of Evil Red Text any day. I think you are now fudding all over the place. -- Lgb

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:33:10PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: I've been using LyX for six years now, and I find - Layout - Document - Layout - Paragraph - Layout - Character very logical now. Interestingly, over my many years of using LyX, I've watched other word processing

Re: [patch] introduce namespace lyx::insets

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am also a bit wary as I did exactly the same thing about three years | ago (I could check CVS for specific dates) in my day time job project - and | undid it shortly afterwards. So this was a complete waste of time. Let me waste some more time then,

Re: compilation problem with Trolltech MacOSX/GPL QT libraries

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:32:44AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: | | | On an ideal world, I don't see the point of the lyx:: namespace. | | except when used to protect against our own pollution of the global | namespace. | | For example ? When the

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?alternative platforms

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:49:06PM +0100, John Levon wrote: Fundamental changes sometimes cause problems during periods of transition. This does not necessarily imply the change is bad. Of course not. But as an infrequent observer over a period of years, it's really striking to see that in

Re: compilation problem with Trolltech MacOSX/GPL QT libraries

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:49:55PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: | For example ? When the LyX code has some clients maybe, but until then | we have only to deal with the platform's namespace Note that lyx is also its own client. This is true. But have we had any real namespace problems

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:05:42PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Certainly not. But not shouting 'veto' does not mean it is unhearable. Your objection has been noted, I said acerbically ;) There are technical reasons for the change. Again, you're too lazy to actually argue the points from

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:51:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using LyX for six years now, and I find - Layout - Document - Layout - Paragraph - Layout - Character very logical now. Interestingly, over my many years of using LyX, I've watched other word

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:31:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:15:08AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: [...] is bad because people might break the rules? Any situation that predictibly makes violations of the GPL into standard practice is, indeed, bad. That's

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:45:42PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I think you are now fudding all over the place. What I find most remarkable about this discussion, Lars, is the emails I've received from sympathetic readers who don't want to have to deal with the ramifications of posting

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:18:29AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always wanted the best for LyX. I'm sorry that certain participants around here say, basically, that it's not worth their time to respond with any substance, then suggest there is no substance to the discussion (LOL) ...

Re: gtk patch against 1.4.0cvs on July 1st.

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Huang Ying [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | The patch contains the the main form, ie the LyXView and Aboutlyx | dialog. Just a begining with gtk frontend. The render system is based on | xft including the math things. So making sure that you have configure | the math xft font properly. I think I have

Re: gtk patch against 1.4.0cvs on July 1st.

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:58:45PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote: The patch contains the the main form, ie the LyXView and Aboutlyx dialog. Just a begining with gtk frontend. The render system is based on xft including the math things. So making sure that you have configure the math xft font

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:45:42PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | I think you are now fudding all over the place. | | What I find most remarkable about this discussion, Lars, is the emails I've | received from sympathetic readers who don't want to have to deal

Re: gtk patch against 1.4.0cvs on July 1st.

2003-07-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Huang Ying wrote: The Advice is welcome. This is a minor issue, but I think the *.glade files should go rather to frontends/gtk/dialogs than to lib/glade (all frontend specific stuff should be in /frontends AFAIK). Regards, Juergen.

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:10:54AM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Do you have any examples? Be as specific as you can. Kayvan, I returned to evaluate whether to jump back into the LyX effort over a period of weeks and months (as I said in one of my first postings in 2003). Those focused on

Re: gtk patch against 1.4.0cvs on July 1st.

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Spitzmueller) writes: | Huang Ying wrote: | The Advice is welcome. | | This is a minor issue, but I think the *.glade files should go rather to | frontends/gtk/dialogs than to lib/glade (all frontend specific stuff should | be in /frontends AFAIK). Depends a bit...

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:15:21AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pursue their agenda. Maybe, finally, time was ripe to reinvigorate some of the ambitions I've encountered around the world for LyX software, documented partly in the LyX mailing lists, but perhaps more in some archived private

feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread larry
ERT can play an important role in creating templates, allowing for insertion of raw LaTeX at key points throughout a document. However, for inexperienced users using a template, it may be important that items of LaTeX be locked, so they may not be casually erased. In fact, I would find this

[PATCH] Branch/Note final

2003-07-07 Thread Martin Vermeer
Attached is the final version of my Note/Branch inset work. It works, has a decent UI and is I think cleanly coded (in Pascal-style C++ :-). Of course there are always things to improve; opening/closing all insets of a given branch is still lacking, and the UI for the set of all branches is a

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:40:45AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, for inexperienced users using a template, it may be important that items of LaTeX be locked, so they may not be casually erased. Having this as an option in the .layout files sound OK. But I don't like the idea of

Re: [PATCH] Branch/Note final

2003-07-07 Thread Martin Vermeer
First bug: nested Note/Branch insets don't work properly, the right mouse click always goes to the outermost one. Fix: limit the effect of button 3 to the inset's button area. Patch replacement file attached. - Martin -- Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Helsinki University of Technology

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:06:27PM +0100, John Levon spake thusly: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:40:45AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, for inexperienced users using a template, it may be important that items of LaTeX be locked, so they may not be casually erased. Having this

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:06:27PM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:40:45AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, for inexperienced users using a template, it may be important that items of LaTeX be locked, so they may not be casually erased. But I don't like the

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:18:21AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: Therefore an alternative proposal: what about introducing an inset -- we could call it InsetProtected -- that protects everything inside it from deletion? A little easier to code on the document level. And the thing remains

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:32:54PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: You have so far provided a lot of statements about the development of lyx and the lack of new features, about what has been done to the code and not, and what we have lost because of the drive for GUII. I've certainly said

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:10:54PM +0100, John Levon wrote: Some content from Larry ! :) Very funny, John. Any permutation is a distribution of some kind. This change in particular reflects the general move to an object-verb interface instead of a verb-object interface. Menus in general

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
What do you propose be done if someone builds and posts binaries somewhere else? Which is inevitable. On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:23:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Well, distributing the sources of the native version without the binaries is really hypocritical, I think. If these source

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:32:54PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | You have so far provided a lot of statements about the development of | lyx and the lack of new features, about what has been done to the code | and not, and what we have lost because of the

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:10:54PM +0100, John Levon wrote: | | Some content from Larry ! :) | | Very funny, John. | | Any permutation is a distribution of some kind. This change in | particular reflects the general move to an object-verb interface instead | of

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | But at least it removes the canned text (along with ERT widgets) from view. It seems to me that a feature like this only have meaning for some ERTs. ERTs that is part of a paragraph _must_ be deleted if the paragraph as a whole is deleted. ERTs that is a

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:12:40AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: And _who_ are you to tell people what they should use their spare time on? Put up or shut up, you are really beginning to annoy me now. Making fundamental UI changes, for functions that have been around for what, six or

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:19:03AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: ERTs that is part of a paragraph _must_ be deleted if the paragraph as a whole is deleted. ERTs that is a paragraph of its own might need to be locked. Well, I suppose one could disqualify deletion of a block of text is a

Re: [PATCH] Branch/Note final

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Attached is the final version of my Note/Branch inset work. It | works, has a decent UI and is I think cleanly coded (in Pascal-style | C++ :-). | | Of course there are always things to improve; opening/closing all | insets of a given branch is still

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:19:03AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | ERTs that is part of a paragraph _must_ be deleted if the paragraph as | a whole is deleted. | | ERTs that is a paragraph of its own might need to be locked. | | Well, I suppose one could

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:12:40AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | And _who_ are you to tell people what they should use their spare time | on? | | Put up or shut up, you are really beginning to annoy me now. | | Making fundamental UI changes, for

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread larry
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:45:24AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: And there are two things here: - locking the contents of the instet from alteration - making the inset be indeletable. I have sympathy with the first one, I have problems with the second one. From the

2x blank spaces in text persist in 1.4.0cvs

2003-07-07 Thread larry
Editing text, if you insert hit a space at the end of a word (with other words already typed after it), then cntrl-right arrow to jump forward one word, then you are left with 2x blank spaces in the text which persist. I imagine this is buggy behavior.

noupdate branch

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
I just tried it out, and it seems to work fine for me. However I am really bad at finding problems with stuff like this. You really need to get others than me to test this. John is good and finding problems... -- Lgb

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:18:21AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: Therefore an alternative proposal: what about introducing an inset -- we could call it InsetProtected -- that protects everything inside it from deletion? A little easier to code on the document level. And the From a code point

Re: Do we want a native Qt/win port?

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:51:52AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: I have no problems with the changes John has made, even if I am not quite familiar with them yet. (Not having recent documents at end of the file menu was a problem...) I'm still a little split over my change here. On the

Re: noupdate branch

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:55:53AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: I just tried it out, and it seems to work fine for me. However I am really bad at finding problems with stuff like this. You really need to get others than me to test this. John is good and finding problems... 24 hours or

Re: 2x blank spaces in text persist in 1.4.0cvs

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:55:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Editing text, if you insert hit a space at the end of a word (with other words already typed after it), then cntrl-right arrow to jump forward one word, then you are left with 2x blank spaces in the text which persist. I

Re: feature request: ERT lock

2003-07-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:01:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I don't like the idea of representing it on the UI level for insets in general - what is wrong with using Undo, Revert, etc. if you accidentally delete something important ? As I mentioned in the quoted text, casual

Re: noupdate branch

2003-07-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | [1] Can I have my yearly toldyouso ? No. This is never helpful and tends to put people in the trenches. -- Lgb

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