Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-17 Thread Dov Feldstern
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:44:46 +0200 Ronen Abravanel wrote: Before you rush into this change - Consider the following usecase: Switching to math - When I'm in math-mode, I always want my keyboard layout to be English. While In windows, The current keyboard layout override the

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:44:46 +0200 Ronen Abravanel wrote: > Before you rush into this change - Consider the following usecase: > Switching to math - When I'm in math-mode, I always want my keyboard layout > to be English. While In windows, The current keyboard layout override the > global one (If

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
Micha Feigin wrote: > system language for english and bind (f12 in this case) to language hebrew. It > makes things incosistent and non-intuitive, esspecially for new users. iirc one reason for the current way was to have crossplatform consistent behaviour. pavel

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-10 Thread Ronen Abravanel
Before you rush into this change - Consider the following usecase: Switching to math - When I'm in math-mode, I always want my keyboard layout to be English. While In windows, The current keyboard layout override the global one (If you put the cursor in an Hebrew context, the language will switch t

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Micha Feigin wrote: Sorry, sent off list by mistake On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:05:51 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: There are two issues. For running the dictionary you need to know the language. For hebrew and arabic it's another issue, you need to know the system language so that you know

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-09 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry, sent off list by mistake On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:05:51 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > There are two issues. For running the dictionary you need to know > > the language. > > For hebrew and arabic it's another issue, you need to know the > > system language > > so that you know di

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
There are two issues. For running the dictionary you need to know the language. For hebrew and arabic it's another issue, you need to know the system language so that you know directionality. Hebrew is right to left. For hebrew characters it may be easy to decide, for what about spaces and nu

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:53:12 + (UTC) > Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2009-03-07, Micha Feigin wrote: ... > it's a question of changing the writing language inside the paragraph > or between paragraphs. > There are two issues. For running the dictionary you n

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:53:12 + (UTC) Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-03-07, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > ... I was wondering why lyx uses it's own keyboard switching, > > especially for hebrew. Is it a technological issue or just that no one > > had the time/interest to implement this yet? > > *

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-07, Micha Feigin wrote: > ... I was wondering why lyx uses it's own keyboard switching, > especially for hebrew. Is it a technological issue or just that no one > had the time/interest to implement this yet? * LyX does not necessariyl use its own keyboard switching but provides this