From lyx-devel  Thu Mar 05 11:02:40 2009
From: =?UTF-8?B?SsO8cmdlbiBTcGl0em3DvGxsZXI=?= <j.spitzmueller () gmx ! de>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:02:40 +0000
To: lyx-devel
Subject: Re: LyX Outliner and Corkboard - Feature Proposal
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Rob Oakes wrote:
> http://www.oak-tree.us/stuff/LyX-Proposal.pdf

Thanks, this is a an interesting paper. I think that your proposal is 
overall compatible with LyX's approach, and I think LyX could be extended to 
support at least many of your ideas.

The actual question now is: how to implement that. As said, it should be 
done in small steps, and the implementation has to be in line with LyX's 
existing code and concepts.

As I see it, you could proceed as follows:

1. implement drag and drop support in the outliner. This is a long-standing 
feature request anyway (only nobody volunteered until now).

2. implement the possibility to add comments to the outliner items. As Helge 
wrote, these will need to be stored in the document (as specific 
properties). I suppose this would be much easier to implement after LyX's 
file format switched to XML, something that is planned for the immediate 
future, but still needs thought and action.

3. implement representations of the outliner comments. I'm not quite sure 
about the "Corkboard" concept, but the other representation would be 
certainly doable (and easier), so you should probably start with this 
representation.

So: go ahead and propose patches :-)

Jürgen