Re: Two UI Issues

Am 06.10.2005 17:37:34 schrieb(en) Richard Heck:
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> The first issue I wanted to mention concerns the message given
> when the user attempts to close the program when files are  
> unsaved. I know this will sound very silly, but it is  
> extremely tempting in this situation to want to hit the "Yes"  
> button, expecting that doing so will cause the program to save  
> open files. I know because I've done it. And keep doing it.

I confess that I thought the same recently but didn't dare to  
propose it ;-)  Anyway, for 1.2.7 it is too late, but in 1.2.8  
it should be corrected (and we already have one switch for  
backward compatibility . . .)

> And  it wouldn't be a terrible idea for temporary files to be  
> written to /tmp/pyblio_procid/ every time a change is made, so  
> that, I don't know, a crash of some sort wouldn't have to  
> cause lost work.

An autosave feature is part of version 1.2.7, due this weekend

> Second, and this really is very minor, it would be nice if  
> there were more accelerators (or shortcuts) for commonly used  
> menu items. "Insert" is a common one for "Add..." functions.  
> And I often find myself wishing I could hit Alt-L or  
> something  of the sort to add a citation to Lyx.

With the new (UI Manager) code it should prove easy to add this,  
perhaps it can be done even for the next release? I will try to  
do so.  (Better still would be to make this user configurable.)

Many thanks for your interest,

	Peter



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