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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: [patch] Do not open or close branches after doc settings
From:       Scott Kostyshak <skostysh () lyx ! org>
Date:       2017-01-22 4:32:27
Message-ID: 20170122043227.2we7twbf4cegmbxp () steph
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 09:34:40PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 09:07:35AM +1300, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> > On 21/11/2016 6:34 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 
> > As an occasional user of branches, when I deactivate a branch I expect the
> > state of insets in the branch to be left in their current state, some open,
> > some closed, as the case may be. When I reactivate the branch I expect to
> > recover that previous state. This seems to me the *minimal* assumption for
> > LyX to make -- there was, presumably, good reason for the insets to be in
> > that particular configuration. LyX should respect that when the branch is
> > reactivated.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback, Günter and Andrew. I propose two questions for
> going forward:
> 
> (1) Do others agree that LyX should be consistent and treat
> activating/deactivating branches from right-clicking on a branch inset
> the same as activating from Document Settings?
> 
> (2) Which behavior should be changed?
> 
> If the answer to (1) is "it is not inconsistent to treat those
> situations differently", then we can just leave things as they are and
> we don't need to change anything. If the answer is that we should change
> one or the other to be consistent, then we need to debate (2).
> 
> For (2), the code for document settings explicitly makes a point to
> open/close the activated/deactivated branches, and it has been this way
> for a very long time, from what I see. So the burden would be on us to
> argue that changing it makes considerably more sense than changing the
> right-click activate/deactivate. I'm not sure how to proceed in this
> case. If other developers agree, we could ask on lyx-users to see what
> they think. I think this is a perfect situation for taking a poll of
> users.

I'm still looking for feedback on the above issue.

Scott

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