Bug#329331: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#329331: Really???

[Georg Baum]

Am Sonntag, 22. April 2007 18:11 schrieb Sven Hoexter:

> Sounds like the behaviour upstream prefers is the contradiction of what
> Marco would like to have.
> 
> Is there a way we can agree to close this bug? Like a technical reason 
why
> it's not a good idea to implement the wished behaviour?

I ask another question: Is there any reason why you would _not_ want to 
specify exactly which file you want to include? LyX does not have the 
limitations of LaTeX. It works out of the box with many image formats, and 
you can make it work with any image format you like by specifying 
additional converters. Since there is always exactly one "original" image 
the recommended practice is to use that and let LyX take care of the 
conversion to the needed format.

Apart from that the old code in 1.3.x was complicated and caused several 
problems, one being the reason for this bug report. Another one: The edit 
button in the graphics dialog (new in 1.4.x) would not work. We had long 
discussions when this part of the code was changed, but I do yet have to 
see one reason why it would be desirable to omit the extension in LyX.


Georg