On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:22:25AM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote:
Andre Poenitz wrote:
I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other.
Smoothing edges, adding something in the background
or similar I can live with...
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here
On 2008-03-23 00:43:33 +0100, Rex C. Eastbourne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It would be great if some people could send in some images, along the lines
of the attached image, that are nice graphical demonstrations of some
functionality of LyX (equations, images, references, bibliography, you name
1) I am using LyX 1.5.3 having upgraded successfully from LyX 1.5.1 some time
ago.
2) I have now just updated from MiKTEX 2.5 to MiKTEX 2.7
3) I noticed that the LyX Preferences Path prefix: was
C:\Program Files\LyX151\bin;C:\Program Files\LyX151\python;C:\Program
Files\MiKTeX
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here
that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the LyX brand and
it may be more a mascot than a logo, but in my opinion we should not change
the logo unless we get one that is really professionally
On 2008-03-25 01:22:25 +0100, Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Andre Poenitz wrote:
I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other.
Smoothing edges, adding something in the background
or similar I can live with...
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only
Graham Griffiths schrieb:
2) I have now just updated from MiKTEX 2.5 to MiKTEX 2.7
Have you uninstalled MiKTeX 2.5 COMPLETELY before you installed MiKTeX 2.7?
This is very important.
3) I noticed that the LyX Preferences Path prefix: was
C:\Program Files\LyX151\bin;C:\Program
Hi Uwe,
I will install LyX 1.5.4 as you suggest.
By the way, as I can remember, I just installed LyX 1.5.3 and nothing else.
Thank you for your prompt reply.
Regards,
Graham
Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If the bird is combined with the word LyX I would prefer the
typeface to be more simple instead of the rotated/colorful letters
of the banner. Just as an example, I attached a splash screen design
with the logo that I think looks more professional.
Hi
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my previous mail :-(
I'd like to alter the part in a way that LyX inserts a page break
before each part. Can I set this in the .layout file somehow? A
pointer to some documentation would be fine.
Thanks again!
André
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andre
Andre Bonhote wrote:
Hi
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my previous mail :-(
I'd like to alter the part in a way that LyX inserts a page break
before each part. Can I set this in the .layout file somehow? A
pointer to some documentation would be fine.
This is done by your document class,
Hello!
Can I manipulate my document inside LyX on the level of its tex code? For
example I want to do a find-and-replace operation to change every \mathbf{R} to
\mathbb{R} in a long document. How can I carry out this?
Cheers, Máté
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 01:28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Joost Verburg wrote:
It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too
unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to quickly
uninstall things they don't understand.
I think the background color
Salát Máté schrieb:
Can I manipulate my document inside LyX on the level of its tex code? For
example I want to do a find-and-replace operation to change every \mathbf{R} to
\mathbb{R} in a long document. How can I carry out this?
open the LyX file with a text editor and replace
\mathbf
Graham Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Uwe,
I installed LyX 1.5.4 as you suggested. Everything works fine now except:
A) The Update PDF icon has disappeared and LyX cannot export a PDF file if I
am currently viewing a PDF rendering of the current LyX file.
B) At start up, a command
Graham Griffiths schrieb:
I installed LyX 1.5.4 as you suggested. Everything works fine now except:
A) The Update PDF icon has disappeared and LyX cannot export a PDF file if I
am currently viewing a PDF rendering of the current LyX file.
Then you are on Windows Vista, right? For an unknown
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
If the bird is combined with the word LyX I would prefer the
typeface to be more simple instead of the rotated/colorful letters
of the banner. Just as an example, I attached a splash screen design
with the logo that I think looks more professional.
While the banner
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then you are on Windows Vista, right? For an unknown reason the program that
handles PDFs when they
are open fails on Vista. I will provide a workaround, but me was told I
first should wait if the
Vista Service Pack 1 fixes this. Have you installed the
Just for the record -- are we now talking about the LyX application's
background/canvas, or the www.lyx.org website background? I changed the
subject line to what the discussion seems to be about.
Rex
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tuesday 25 March
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 12:26, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote:
Just for the record -- are we now talking about the LyX application's
background/canvas, or the www.lyx.org website background? I changed the
subject line to what the discussion seems to be about.
I was talking about the website. In my
Steve Litt wrote:
I was talking about the website.
and I was talking about the application. So here we are ;-)
I didn't want to suggest to use the application workarea background for the
website. Actually, I think discussing the webpage background color is
difficult, independent from the
Graham Griffiths schrieb:
I am using WinXP
Then I have no idea, except that you have a buggy or outdated version of the Adobe Reader installed.
Try to update your Adobe Reader.
regards Uwe
Hello,
Can someone give me advice how to make a glossary with Lyx ?
Thanks in advance
Best Regards
Valter
--
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PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ADDRESS BOOK WITH MY NEW E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Valter Filipe Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then I have no idea, except that you have a buggy or outdated version of the
Adobe Reader installed.
Try to update your Adobe Reader.
I did not have the problem with LyX 1.5.3
Regards,
Graham
I believe you should not wait for Vista SP1, Uwe. I'm one who is going to
wait until people tests it, because I don't really know what nasty things
this huge update can cause. Even Universities in the USA have been advising
against installing it until it is fully tested.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too
unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to
quickly uninstall things they don't understand.
I think the background color is something that makes LyX unique in a
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do LyX have some sort of primary colours? Or some kind of colour
theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour
set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do LyX have some sort of primary colours? Or some kind of colour
theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a
colour
set, where we should try and use a certain combo of
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other. Smoothing edges,
adding something in the background or similar I can live with...
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one
here that is somewhat unique. I don't know
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here
that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the LyX brand and
it may be more a mascot than a logo, but in my opinion we should not change
the logo unless we get one
Great idea, Christian. I wouldn't have thought of creating a graphical
profile, but it makes total sense. Hopefully Andrei (AK) will have
something to say on this topic.
Rex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do LyX have some sort of primary colours? Or some kind of colour
theme? My company spent
Enrico Forestieri writes:
Rudi Gaelzer writes:
I want to report this first here. If you agree that this is a bug, I can
file
a report...
Yes, this is a bug. Indeed, if you move the paragraph with accented chars
in yadas_ascii.lyx before the figure float, everything works.
Please,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. My girlfriend had a suggestion, could we get some design
student to do a project related to this?
Sounds like a great idea.
She gives the old splash screen a grade of 1 (out of 5), and yours get a
grade of 3. So it's certainly an improvement!
I agree with
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Then you are on Windows Vista, right? For an unknown reason the program
that handles PDFs when they are open fails on Vista. I will provide a
workaround, but me was told I first should wait if the Vista Service
Pack 1 fixes this. Have you installed the Service Pack 1 for Vista
might be that it associates to creativity, through it's childish
appearance.
after all i'm just a child playing with toys.
pavel
Joost Verburg schrieb:
What is the reason to use this alternative PDF viewing method?
That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some people complained about this. A
user contacted me and we developed together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is
Julio Rojas schrieb:
I believe you should not wait for Vista SP1, Uwe. I'm one who is going to
wait until people tests it, because I don't really know what nasty things
this huge update can cause. Even Universities in the USA have been advising
against installing it until it is fully tested.
Valter Filipe Silva schrieb:
Can someone give me advice how to make a glossary with Lyx ?
Have a look at the LyX User's Guide that comes with LyX 1.5.2 or newer.
regards Uwe
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some
people complained about this. A user contacted me and we developed
together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is changed.
Unfortunaltely file handles seem to be handled differently in Vista,
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:03:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other. Smoothing edges,
adding something in the background or similar I can live with...
A good logo should be recognized immediately.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:22:54AM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote:
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some
people complained about this. A user contacted me and we developed
together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is changed.
Andre Poenitz wrote:
Checking a file on harddisk every 0.5s will e.g. a laptop never go to
rest...
I cannot reproduce that. All screen/harddisk/system standby timers on
the laptops I know are based on user inactivity, not applications
accessing the hard drive. Do you have some more
Joost Verburg schrieb:
What is the reason for this complaint?
That this prevents computers from beeing able to go to sleep mode and save battery energy. Weh
discussed this some time ago and you said that this is not the case. I can't test this and don't
have a strong opinion.
If you know
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
might be that it associates to creativity, through it's childish
appearance.
after all i'm just a child playing with toys.
Just like the rest of us:-)
Guess it really comes down to the kind of users we _want_ :-)
/C
--
Christian Ridderström,
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too
unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to
quickly uninstall things they don't understand.
I think
might be that it associates to creativity, through it's childish
appearance.
after all i'm just a child playing with toys.
Just like the rest of us:-)
Guess it really comes down to the kind of users we _want_ :-)
me? :))
p
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 10:46:10 am rgheck wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
I think I'll just do development and leave this issue to you guys. ;-)
Yes!
Let's enjoy the substance of LyX.
We can leave the shadow to OO, MS Office, and the others
Joost Verburg schrieb:
This is more simple as it is only executed when the file is changed:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X/development/Win32/packaging/AltInstaller/specials/PDFViewWin/PDFViewWin.dpr
Does it work with PDF updating (that is, when the PDF viewer
WT schrieb:
I am tring to construct my own .layout file now.
Why? You don#t need your own .layout file for Chinese.
The problem I encountered is how to draw a line in the header of every page.
How to make a different header of odd pages and even pages?
Set the page style to fancy.
Does anyone know if the following bibliographic style is supported in
LyX/LaTeX:
\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{Zienkiewicz} O.C. Zienkiewicz and R.L. Taylor. \textit{The finite
element method}, McGraw Hill, Vol. I., (1989), Vol. II., (1991).
\bibitem{Idelsohn} S. Idelsohn and E. O\~nate.
Hi,
Because of recent spam, I decided to see if it helps that we now require a
password in order to approve a URI. What this mean is that if you edit a
wiki page in order to add a link to an external web page, it does not
automatically become a link. First you have click on the text approve
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi Christian,
I had been talking about the website. I believe the application itself has
perfect color as it exists right now.
*LOL*
I'll leave this particular discussion, it's just to confusing!
/Christian
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. My girlfriend had a suggestion, could we get some design student
to do a project related to this?
Sounds like a great idea.
Any ideas on how we find such a person?
She gives the old splash screen a grade of 1
I've installed LyX 1.5.4-1, MiKTeX 2.7, GhostScript
8.61,ImageMagick-6.4.0-Q16 on two Windows XP Pro boxes (one at home and
one at work). As far as I know the MiKTeX packages installed are
identical. However, one machine (work) loads all the eps images just
fine but one the other machine
This is not specifically LyX, but LaTeX. I ask for your indulgence. :-)
Many moons ago I asked for opinions on using LaTeX as a report tool for a
python application (a mathematical model, to be more precise), and finally
decided that ReportLab would be the better solution. However, having
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eh... what do you mean in the middle? I've created a draft page, and
put a copy of the page in a section there under the heading
Version 1 - as per Rich's suggestion
in the page
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Welcome-Draft
Christian,
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 03:58:47 pm Rich Shepard wrote:
This is not specifically LyX, but LaTeX. I ask for your indulgence. :-)
Many moons ago I asked for opinions on using LaTeX as a report tool for
a python application (a mathematical model, to be more precise), and
finally decided
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:22:25AM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote:
Andre Poenitz wrote:
I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other.
Smoothing edges, adding something in the background
or similar I can live with...
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here
On 2008-03-23 00:43:33 +0100, Rex C. Eastbourne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It would be great if some people could send in some images, along the lines
of the attached image, that are nice graphical demonstrations of some
functionality of LyX (equations, images, references, bibliography, you name
1) I am using LyX 1.5.3 having upgraded successfully from LyX 1.5.1 some time
ago.
2) I have now just updated from MiKTEX 2.5 to MiKTEX 2.7
3) I noticed that the LyX Preferences Path prefix: was
C:\Program Files\LyX151\bin;C:\Program Files\LyX151\python;C:\Program
Files\MiKTeX
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here
that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the LyX brand and
it may be more a mascot than a logo, but in my opinion we should not change
the logo unless we get one that is really professionally
On 2008-03-25 01:22:25 +0100, Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Andre Poenitz wrote:
I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other.
Smoothing edges, adding something in the background
or similar I can live with...
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only
Graham Griffiths schrieb:
2) I have now just updated from MiKTEX 2.5 to MiKTEX 2.7
Have you uninstalled MiKTeX 2.5 COMPLETELY before you installed MiKTeX 2.7?
This is very important.
3) I noticed that the LyX Preferences Path prefix: was
C:\Program Files\LyX151\bin;C:\Program
Hi Uwe,
I will install LyX 1.5.4 as you suggest.
By the way, as I can remember, I just installed LyX 1.5.3 and nothing else.
Thank you for your prompt reply.
Regards,
Graham
Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If the bird is combined with the word LyX I would prefer the
typeface to be more simple instead of the rotated/colorful letters
of the banner. Just as an example, I attached a splash screen design
with the logo that I think looks more professional.
Hi
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my previous mail :-(
I'd like to alter the part in a way that LyX inserts a page break
before each part. Can I set this in the .layout file somehow? A
pointer to some documentation would be fine.
Thanks again!
André
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andre
Andre Bonhote wrote:
Hi
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my previous mail :-(
I'd like to alter the part in a way that LyX inserts a page break
before each part. Can I set this in the .layout file somehow? A
pointer to some documentation would be fine.
This is done by your document class,
Hello!
Can I manipulate my document inside LyX on the level of its tex code? For
example I want to do a find-and-replace operation to change every \mathbf{R} to
\mathbb{R} in a long document. How can I carry out this?
Cheers, Máté
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 01:28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Joost Verburg wrote:
It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too
unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to quickly
uninstall things they don't understand.
I think the background color
Salát Máté schrieb:
Can I manipulate my document inside LyX on the level of its tex code? For
example I want to do a find-and-replace operation to change every \mathbf{R} to
\mathbb{R} in a long document. How can I carry out this?
open the LyX file with a text editor and replace
\mathbf
Graham Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Uwe,
I installed LyX 1.5.4 as you suggested. Everything works fine now except:
A) The Update PDF icon has disappeared and LyX cannot export a PDF file if I
am currently viewing a PDF rendering of the current LyX file.
B) At start up, a command
Graham Griffiths schrieb:
I installed LyX 1.5.4 as you suggested. Everything works fine now except:
A) The Update PDF icon has disappeared and LyX cannot export a PDF file if I
am currently viewing a PDF rendering of the current LyX file.
Then you are on Windows Vista, right? For an unknown
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
If the bird is combined with the word LyX I would prefer the
typeface to be more simple instead of the rotated/colorful letters
of the banner. Just as an example, I attached a splash screen design
with the logo that I think looks more professional.
While the banner
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then you are on Windows Vista, right? For an unknown reason the program that
handles PDFs when they
are open fails on Vista. I will provide a workaround, but me was told I
first should wait if the
Vista Service Pack 1 fixes this. Have you installed the
Just for the record -- are we now talking about the LyX application's
background/canvas, or the www.lyx.org website background? I changed the
subject line to what the discussion seems to be about.
Rex
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tuesday 25 March
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 12:26, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote:
Just for the record -- are we now talking about the LyX application's
background/canvas, or the www.lyx.org website background? I changed the
subject line to what the discussion seems to be about.
I was talking about the website. In my
Steve Litt wrote:
I was talking about the website.
and I was talking about the application. So here we are ;-)
I didn't want to suggest to use the application workarea background for the
website. Actually, I think discussing the webpage background color is
difficult, independent from the
Graham Griffiths schrieb:
I am using WinXP
Then I have no idea, except that you have a buggy or outdated version of the Adobe Reader installed.
Try to update your Adobe Reader.
regards Uwe
Hello,
Can someone give me advice how to make a glossary with Lyx ?
Thanks in advance
Best Regards
Valter
--
-
PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ADDRESS BOOK WITH MY NEW E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Valter Filipe Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then I have no idea, except that you have a buggy or outdated version of the
Adobe Reader installed.
Try to update your Adobe Reader.
I did not have the problem with LyX 1.5.3
Regards,
Graham
I believe you should not wait for Vista SP1, Uwe. I'm one who is going to
wait until people tests it, because I don't really know what nasty things
this huge update can cause. Even Universities in the USA have been advising
against installing it until it is fully tested.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too
unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to
quickly uninstall things they don't understand.
I think the background color is something that makes LyX unique in a
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do LyX have some sort of primary colours? Or some kind of colour
theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour
set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do LyX have some sort of primary colours? Or some kind of colour
theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a
colour
set, where we should try and use a certain combo of
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other. Smoothing edges,
adding something in the background or similar I can live with...
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one
here that is somewhat unique. I don't know
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here
that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the LyX brand and
it may be more a mascot than a logo, but in my opinion we should not change
the logo unless we get one
Great idea, Christian. I wouldn't have thought of creating a graphical
profile, but it makes total sense. Hopefully Andrei (AK) will have
something to say on this topic.
Rex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do LyX have some sort of primary colours? Or some kind of colour
theme? My company spent
Enrico Forestieri writes:
Rudi Gaelzer writes:
I want to report this first here. If you agree that this is a bug, I can
file
a report...
Yes, this is a bug. Indeed, if you move the paragraph with accented chars
in yadas_ascii.lyx before the figure float, everything works.
Please,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. My girlfriend had a suggestion, could we get some design
student to do a project related to this?
Sounds like a great idea.
She gives the old splash screen a grade of 1 (out of 5), and yours get a
grade of 3. So it's certainly an improvement!
I agree with
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Then you are on Windows Vista, right? For an unknown reason the program
that handles PDFs when they are open fails on Vista. I will provide a
workaround, but me was told I first should wait if the Vista Service
Pack 1 fixes this. Have you installed the Service Pack 1 for Vista
might be that it associates to creativity, through it's childish
appearance.
after all i'm just a child playing with toys.
pavel
Joost Verburg schrieb:
What is the reason to use this alternative PDF viewing method?
That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some people complained about this. A
user contacted me and we developed together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is
Julio Rojas schrieb:
I believe you should not wait for Vista SP1, Uwe. I'm one who is going to
wait until people tests it, because I don't really know what nasty things
this huge update can cause. Even Universities in the USA have been advising
against installing it until it is fully tested.
Valter Filipe Silva schrieb:
Can someone give me advice how to make a glossary with Lyx ?
Have a look at the LyX User's Guide that comes with LyX 1.5.2 or newer.
regards Uwe
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some
people complained about this. A user contacted me and we developed
together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is changed.
Unfortunaltely file handles seem to be handled differently in Vista,
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:03:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other. Smoothing edges,
adding something in the background or similar I can live with...
A good logo should be recognized immediately.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:22:54AM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote:
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some
people complained about this. A user contacted me and we developed
together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is changed.
Andre Poenitz wrote:
Checking a file on harddisk every 0.5s will e.g. a laptop never go to
rest...
I cannot reproduce that. All screen/harddisk/system standby timers on
the laptops I know are based on user inactivity, not applications
accessing the hard drive. Do you have some more
Joost Verburg schrieb:
What is the reason for this complaint?
That this prevents computers from beeing able to go to sleep mode and save battery energy. Weh
discussed this some time ago and you said that this is not the case. I can't test this and don't
have a strong opinion.
If you know
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
might be that it associates to creativity, through it's childish
appearance.
after all i'm just a child playing with toys.
Just like the rest of us:-)
Guess it really comes down to the kind of users we _want_ :-)
/C
--
Christian Ridderström,
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too
unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to
quickly uninstall things they don't understand.
I think
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