Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-06-05 Thread Jens Nöckel
Hi, there finally is a solution in sight for the long-standing issue that some Mac users have with the swapped role of the Meta and Control keys in Qt. I have summarized my preliminary ideas on the LyX Wiki page dedicated to this topic, http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/LyXmodifierKeys#sMac.LyXmodifierKeys

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-06-05 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Jun 5, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 05/06/2010 18:45, Jens Nöckel a écrit : >> So my question to the LyX dev team would be: could you add a preference item >> that lets the user set some flag, so that the call >> setAttribute(Qt::AA_MacDontSwapCt

No scroll wheel in LyX/Qt 4.6.2 on Mac

2010-06-07 Thread Jens Nöckel
Hi, while testing LyX 1.6.6.1 with Qt 6.6.2 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, I noticed that the scroll wheel on my mouse doesn't work (same for laptop trackpads). I then tried lyx 2.0.0 from the lyx-devel SVN repository, and found the same behavior (compiled against the same Qt). I had compiled Qt 4.

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-09-16 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 17.09.2010 um 06:31 schrieb Jens Nöckel: > >> >> On Jun 5, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 5, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-09-16 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Sep 16, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 17.09.2010 um 07:57 schrieb Jens Nöckel: > >> >> On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: >> >>> Am 17.09.2010 um 06:31 schrieb Jens Nöckel: >>> >>>> >>>> On Jun

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-09-17 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Stephan Witt wrote: > > ... its little bit hard to follow the thread when people dont kill the unused > top lines > >>> There is now a new checkbox in frontend/qt/ui/PrefInput.ui which determines >>> the role of Control and Apple keys, but

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-09-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Stephan Witt wrote: >>> So if I put Pavel's suggestion in, would my checkbox patch be acceptable? >>> As I said, I'd be OK without GUI, but I don't really think it will hurt >>> anyone to have it in there, with the default being not to change th

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-09-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Sep 18, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Jens Nöckel wrote: > > On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> Stephan Witt wrote: >>>> So if I put Pavel's suggestion in, would my checkbox patch be acceptable? >>>> As I said, I'd be OK w

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-09-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
Another version of the patch is attached, this time hopefully readable by everyone... There was one additional line in GuiApplication.cpp that I took out - it was commented out anyway and corresponded to the initial test I described in http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/LyXmodifierKeys#sMac.LyXmodifierKeys_5 

GPL statement

2010-09-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
Hi again, sorry that my patch still appears to be encoded wrong... it opens fine for me but I'll see how I can change mime type next time. Anyway, here is the statement: I hereby grant permission to license my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Jens

Re: Please, verify the INSTALL on MacOSX document...

2010-09-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Sep 18, 2010, at 6:33 PM, BH wrote: > > That's it. Nice job with the clear documentation ... and nice work on > LyX/Mac quite generally. It's coming along great! Hi Bennett, I agree the INSTALL.MacOSX is now much more comprehensive and useful! I had to make some adjustments though, because I

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-09-19 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Sep 19, 2010, at 12:02 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Jens Nöckel wrote: >> Another version of the patch is attached, this time hopefully readable by >> everyone... > > no its octet-stream now. next guess is .txt :) > Or using a different mailer, si

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-09-19 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Jens Nöckel wrote: >> + connect(dontswapCB, SIGNAL(toggled(bool)), >> + this, SIGNAL(changed())); >> + dontswapCB->setVisible(false);

Re: Solving the Meta/Control key swap problem on Mac OS X

2010-09-19 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Sep 19, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Jens Nöckel wrote: >> That's perfect - please feel free to modify my patch this way. > > its in. perhaps you want to add oneliner into misc section of newinlyx20 > wiki... > pavel Great! Could someone send me the WIki

Re: aqua.bind

2011-03-20 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Mar 20, 2011, at 3:56 PM, BH wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> mac people, >> what is the relation between mac.bind and aqua.bind. do we need both of them? >> pavel > > I believe aqua.bind was an attempt to imitate Linux's ability to > access the menus from the

Re: aqua.bind

2011-03-21 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Mar 20, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Jens Nöckel wrote: >>> I believe aqua.bind was an attempt to imitate Linux's ability to >>> access the menus from the keyboard (albeit without the menus dropping >>> down), whereas I know that mac.bind was desi

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread Jens Nöckel
libreoffice Although I'll miss the old "noun" icon: it's the last samurai of the 8-bit world. Jens

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2011-04-20 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Il 20/09/2009 15:10, Tommaso Cucinotta ha scritto: >> Just a simple button that creates an empty drawing copying a template >> from a folder (and opening an external editor on it) seems really the >> right way to go, it would solve your part

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > > > On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe >> wrote: >>> Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to >>> fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. >>> >>

Re: Goals for 2.1

2011-05-04 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 4, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 04.05.2011 um 18:57 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > >> Wouldn't it be nice if you could generate the .app bundle right from within >> XCode? > > Not really. I promised to provide the .app bundle as nightly build - by a > cron job. > I don't k

Re: lyx 2.0 crash

2011-05-09 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 9, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:03 PM, John Kennan wrote: >> Hi: >> >> In Windows version (XP), using LyX 2.0.0 (April 29) I get a crash when I do >> this: >> > Confirmed on Xubuntu 10.04, with 2.0.0. > Liviu > The same thing happens on Mac OS X 10

Re: unicode glyph for 0xf061

2011-06-29 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Jun 29, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Kornel wrote:Hi, does someone know, if there exists some latexrepresentation of this symbol?Unfortunatelly I cannot use xelatex, because of bibtex references. -->  <-- KornelI couldn't find a LaTeX command, but maybe this macro will do what you want (it uses an empty \

Re: unicode glyph for 0xf061

2011-06-29 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Jun 29, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Kornel wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2011 schrieb Jens Nöckel: > > On Jun 29, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Kornel wrote: > > > Hi, does someone know, if there exists some latex > > > representation of this symbol? > > > Unfortunatelly I c

Re: unicode glyph for 0xf061

2011-06-29 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Jun 29, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote:On Jun 29, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Kornel wrote:Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2011 schrieb Jens Nöckel:> On Jun 29, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Kornel wrote:> > Hi, does someone know, if there exists some latex> > representation of this symbol?> > Unfort

Re: Image Lifecycle (Create) Patch - Video

2011-07-29 Thread Jens Nöckel
To me it seems that this could be a great job for an external launcher utility or an operating system service, but not a feature that LyX should be responsible for. I guess Nautilus proves this point. Sorry to be so conservative about this, but for LyX to start shipping binary template files of

Possible bug with keyboard shortcut parsing

2012-02-05 Thread Jens Nöckel
Hi, I just noticed a weird bug on Mac OS C with LyX 2.02. First I couldn't reproduce it, but now I think I have a recipe, and hopefully someone can confirm it. In some cases, the _sequence_ of Control-x and Control-s that emacs keybindings reserve for saving a document doesn't work. Instead, onl

Re: Possible bug with keyboard shortcut parsing

2012-02-05 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Feb 5, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote: > Hi, > I just noticed a weird bug on Mac OS C with LyX 2.02. First I couldn't > reproduce it, but now I think I have a recipe, and hopefully someone can > confirm it. In some cases, the _sequence_ of Control-x and Contro

lyx.org down

2012-07-03 Thread Jens Nöckel
Hi, another of those annoying outages has hit lyx.org and I thought I better let someone here know about it. It's happened before - but it always looks worrying when you can't get to the download page... Jens