Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-03 Thread Niklas Burtscheid 
Jack Tanner ihok at hotmail.com writes:

 
 Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com writes:
 
  
  Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters.
 
 Do you know of situations where one needs both the word count and the 
 character
 count?
 
 

If the user has to decide which of both is displayed, you always have to change 
the setting if another one wants you to write xy words instead of z characters 
and vice versa.

And I find it quite interesting, to see how many word I write, even when I have 
to look at the characters.


-- 
NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone!  

Jetzt informieren: http://mobile.1und1.de/?ac=OM.PW.PW003K20328T7073a

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-03 Thread Niklas Burtscheid 
Jack Tanner  hotmail.com> writes:

> 
> Liviu Andronic  gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters.
> 
> Do you know of situations where one needs both the word count and the 
> character
> count?
> 
> 

If the user has to decide which of both is displayed, you always have to change 
the setting if another one wants you to write xy words instead of z characters 
and vice versa.

And I find it quite interesting, to see how many word I write, even when I have 
to look at the characters.


-- 
NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone!  

Jetzt informieren: http://mobile.1und1.de/?ac=OM.PW.PW003K20328T7073a

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Richard Heck 

On 02/29/2012 10:45 PM, Jack Tanner wrote:

Niklas BurtscheidNiklas.Burtscheidat  gmx.de  writes:


There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics (number 
of characters  number of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the right 
side of it).

Recent versions of Word do exactly this, and it's pretty handy. Implementing
this would allow LyX to lose the Tools-Statistics menu entry and corresponding 
dialog, so that's a usability win in my book. I'm not a developer, but I'd suggest 
filing an RFE.

If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I 
suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really 
need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are?


Richard

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Jack Tanner 
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:

 
 If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I 
 suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really 
 need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are?

I never understood the need for the number of characters count in any case,
including under Tools-Statistics.

But an auto-updating number of words (say, when idle, every 5 seconds) is really
handy.

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Jack Tanner i...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:


 If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I
 suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really
 need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are?

 I never understood the need for the number of characters count in any case,
 including under Tools-Statistics.

Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters.

Liviu


 But an auto-updating number of words (say, when idle, every 5 seconds) is 
 really
 handy.




-- 
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
Do you know how to write?
http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Jack Tanner 
Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com writes:

 
 Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters.

Do you know of situations where one needs both the word count and the character
count?

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Richard Heck 

On 02/29/2012 10:45 PM, Jack Tanner wrote:

Niklas Burtscheid  writes:


There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics (number 
of characters&  number of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the right 
side of it).

Recent versions of Word do exactly this, and it's pretty handy. Implementing
this would allow LyX to lose the Tools->Statistics menu entry and corresponding 
dialog, so that's a usability win in my book. I'm not a developer, but I'd suggest 
filing an RFE.

If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I 
suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really 
need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are?


Richard

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Jack Tanner 
Richard Heck  comcast.net> writes:

> 
> If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I 
> suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really 
> need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are?

I never understood the need for the number of characters count in any case,
including under Tools->Statistics.

But an auto-updating number of words (say, when idle, every 5 seconds) is really
handy.

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Jack Tanner  wrote:
> Richard Heck  comcast.net> writes:
>
>>
>> If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I
>> suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really
>> need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are?
>
> I never understood the need for the number of characters count in any case,
> including under Tools->Statistics.
>
Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters.

Liviu


> But an auto-updating number of words (say, when idle, every 5 seconds) is 
> really
> handy.
>



-- 
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
Do you know how to write?
http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Jack Tanner 
Liviu Andronic  gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters.

Do you know of situations where one needs both the word count and the character
count?

Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-02-29 Thread Niklas Burtscheid 
There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics 
(number of characters  number of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the 
right side of it).

Niklas

-- 
Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir
belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-02-29 Thread Jack Tanner 
Niklas Burtscheid Niklas.Burtscheid at gmx.de writes:

 
 There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics
(number of characters  number
 of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the right side of it).

Recent versions of Word do exactly this, and it's pretty handy. Implementing
this would allow LyX to lose the Tools-Statistics menu entry and corresponding
dialog, so that's a usability win in my book. I'm not a developer, but I'd
suggest filing an RFE.

Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-02-29 Thread Niklas Burtscheid 
There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics 
(number of characters & number of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the 
right side of it).

Niklas

-- 
Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir
belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-02-29 Thread Jack Tanner 
Niklas Burtscheid  gmx.de> writes:

> 
> There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics
(number of characters & number
> of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the right side of it).

Recent versions of Word do exactly this, and it's pretty handy. Implementing
this would allow LyX to lose the Tools->Statistics menu entry and corresponding
dialog, so that's a usability win in my book. I'm not a developer, but I'd
suggest filing an RFE.