Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 22:19 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: To be clear: the bug is in 4.6.3 present too. That's why the patch is needed... Stephan Which bug are we talking about here ? The bug is described in ticket #6706. It's not in LyX, it's in Qt - therefore the LyX ticket was closed.

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

To be clear: the bug is in 4.6.3 present too. That's why the patch is needed... Stephan Which bug are we talking about here ? The bug is described in ticket #6706. It's not in LyX, it's in Qt - therefore the LyX ticket was closed. But the problem is real. Stephan I would have left

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 08.11.2010 um 09:34 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: To be clear: the bug is in 4.6.3 present too. That's why the patch is needed... Stephan Which bug are we talking about here ? The bug is described in ticket #6706. It's not in LyX, it's in Qt - therefore the LyX ticket was

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Yes, later. But read Bennetts mail in this thread. Ah yes, sorry. He says it works. At the cost of nasty font render problems. These were already discussed. It depends on the display font how bad the rendering is. The root cause may be that the text fragment passed to Qt string draw

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 08.11.2010 um 09:49 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: ... At the cost of nasty font render problems. These were already discussed. It depends on the display font how bad the rendering is. The root cause may be that the text fragment passed to Qt string draw differs from the text

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

These problems need to get fixed ;). Yes. I don't know how difficult it is. I can tell you when I know what causes it ;). BTW, is this a problem only on Mac OSX platform? Well, I haven't seen this yet, so I guess. Vincent

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 22:19 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: >> To be clear: the bug is in 4.6.3 present too. >> That's why the patch is needed... >> >> Stephan >> > > Which bug are we talking about here ? The bug is described in ticket #6706. It's not in LyX, it's in Qt - therefore the LyX ticket

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

>>> To be clear: the bug is in 4.6.3 present too. >>> That's why the patch is needed... >>> >>> Stephan >>> >> >> Which bug are we talking about here ? > > The bug is described in ticket #6706. > It's not in LyX, it's in Qt - therefore the LyX ticket > was closed. But the problem is real. > >

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 08.11.2010 um 09:34 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: To be clear: the bug is in 4.6.3 present too. That's why the patch is needed... Stephan >>> >>> Which bug are we talking about here ? >> >> The bug is described in ticket #6706. >> It's not in LyX, it's in Qt -

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

> Yes, later. > But read Bennetts mail in this thread. Ah yes, sorry. > He says it works. At the cost of nasty font render problems. These were > already > discussed. It depends on the display font how bad the rendering is. The root > cause > may be that the text fragment passed to Qt string

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 08.11.2010 um 09:49 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: >> ... At the cost of nasty font render problems. These were already >> discussed. It depends on the display font how bad the rendering is. The root >> cause >> may be that the text fragment passed to Qt string draw differs from >> the text

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

>> These problems need to get fixed ;). > > Yes. I don't know how difficult it is. I can tell you when I know what causes it ;). > BTW, is this a problem only on Mac OSX platform? > Well, I haven't seen this yet, so I guess. Vincent

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:27 PM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: Hi there, My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so far by MacOS so called legendary user friendlyness but I am trying to get

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:27 PM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: Hi there, My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: Mac user friendliness is an acquired taste. Just as Windows or any other desktop then :-) But it seems that MacOS wants to impose me a way of working and I really don't like it. I find it particularly irritating that I

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 06.11.2010 um 23:27 schrieb BH: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: Hi there, My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so far by MacOS so called legendary user friendlyness but I am trying to get used to it right now. The

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 10:58 schrieb Liviu Andronic: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: Mac user friendliness is an acquired taste. Just as Windows or any other desktop then :-) But it seems that MacOS wants to impose me a way of working and I really don't

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Le 7 nov. 10 à 10:21, Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : But it seems that MacOS wants to impose me a way of working and I really don't like it. I find it particularly irritating that I cannot maximize all windows the same way. Safari for example only maximizes vertically. I hope LyX is not doing

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On 07/11/2010 10:58, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Abdelrazak Younesyou...@lyx.org wrote: Mac user friendliness is an acquired taste. Just as Windows or any other desktop then :-) But it seems that MacOS wants to impose me a way of working and I really

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Stephan Witt wrote: I'm using * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) into INSTALL.MacOSX? p

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 19:52 schrieb Pavel Sanda: Stephan Witt wrote: I'm using * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) into INSTALL.MacOSX? What exactly? It's described there already how to make a self compiled Qt library. Regarding the patch - the link is in

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Stephan Witt wrote: I'm using * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) into INSTALL.MacOSX? What exactly? we suggest to use lyx with qt 4.6.2? p

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 21:54 schrieb Pavel Sanda: Stephan Witt wrote: I'm using * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) into INSTALL.MacOSX? What exactly? we suggest to use lyx with qt 4.6.2? Ah ok, it doesn't make a difference AFAICS. 4.6.2 is working well too

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 22:02 schrieb Stephan Witt: Am 07.11.2010 um 21:54 schrieb Pavel Sanda: Stephan Witt wrote: I'm using * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) into INSTALL.MacOSX? What exactly? we suggest to use lyx with qt 4.6.2? Ah ok, it doesn't

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

To be clear: the bug is in 4.6.3 present too. That's why the patch is needed... Stephan Which bug are we talking about here ? Vincent

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 07.11.2010 um 19:52 schrieb Pavel Sanda: Stephan Witt wrote: I'm using * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) into INSTALL.MacOSX? What exactly? It's described there already how to make a

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:27 PM, BH wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > Hi there, > > My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so > far > > by MacOS so called legendary user friendlyness but I am

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:27 PM, BH wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> Mac user friendliness is an acquired taste. > > Just as Windows or any other desktop then :-) > But it seems that MacOS wants to impose me a way of working and I really > don't like it. I find it particularly irritating

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 06.11.2010 um 23:27 schrieb BH: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> Hi there, >> My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so far >> by MacOS so called legendary user friendlyness but I am trying to get used >> to it right

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 10:58 schrieb Liviu Andronic: > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >>> Mac user friendliness is an acquired taste. >> >> Just as Windows or any other desktop then :-) >> But it seems that MacOS wants to impose me a way of working and I

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Le 7 nov. 10 à 10:21, Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : But it seems that MacOS wants to impose me a way of working and I really don't like it. I find it particularly irritating that I cannot maximize all windows the same way. Safari for example only maximizes vertically. I hope LyX is not doing

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On 07/11/2010 10:58, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Mac user friendliness is an acquired taste. Just as Windows or any other desktop then :-) But it seems that MacOS wants to impose me a way of working and I really

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Stephan Witt wrote: > I'm using > * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) into INSTALL.MacOSX? p

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 19:52 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > Stephan Witt wrote: >> I'm using >> * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) > > into INSTALL.MacOSX? What exactly? It's described there already how to make a self compiled Qt library. Regarding the patch - the link is

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Stephan Witt wrote: > >> I'm using > >> * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) > > > > into INSTALL.MacOSX? > > What exactly? we suggest to use lyx with qt 4.6.2? p

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 21:54 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > Stephan Witt wrote: I'm using * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) >>> >>> into INSTALL.MacOSX? >> >> What exactly? > > we suggest to use lyx with qt 4.6.2? Ah ok, it doesn't make a difference AFAICS. 4.6.2

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Am 07.11.2010 um 22:02 schrieb Stephan Witt: > Am 07.11.2010 um 21:54 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > >> Stephan Witt wrote: > I'm using > * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) into INSTALL.MacOSX? >>> >>> What exactly? >> >> we suggest to use lyx with qt

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

> To be clear: the bug is in 4.6.3 present too. > That's why the patch is needed... > > Stephan > Which bug are we talking about here ? Vincent

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > > Am 07.11.2010 um 19:52 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > >> Stephan Witt wrote: >>> I'm using >>> * self compiled Qt 4.6.3 library (because of #6706 is fixed then) >> >> into INSTALL.MacOSX? > > What exactly? > > It's described there

New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Hi there, My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so far by MacOS so called legendary user friendlyness but I am trying to get used to it right now. Anyway, I need to install development stuff. I've downloaded latest XCode and Qt SDK. Now I need to know if I'd better

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: Hi there, My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so far by MacOS so called legendary user friendlyness but I am trying to get used to it right now. Anyway, I need to install development stuff.

New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

Hi there, My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so far by MacOS so called legendary user friendlyness but I am trying to get used to it right now. Anyway, I need to install development stuff. I've downloaded latest XCode and Qt SDK. Now I need to know if I'd better

Re: New Mac user seek advice (mostly offtopics)

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Hi there, > My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so far > by MacOS so called legendary user friendlyness but I am trying to get used > to it right now. > Anyway, I need to install development