LyX 2.3.5.2 Relesed

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 7/12/20 2:21 AM, Yu Jin wrote:
> Am So., 12. Juli 2020 um 06:06 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck
> <rikiheck at lyx.org <mailto:rikiheck at lyx.org>>:
>
>     On 7/11/20 4:05 PM, Yu Jin wrote:
>>     Am Sa., 11. Juli 2020 um 20:58 Uhr schrieb Bernd
>>     <bernd.kappenberg at gmx.de <mailto:bernd.kappenberg at gmx.de>>:
>>
>>         Yes, I started it with the checkbox on the last page of the
>>         installer.
>>
>>         I use Windows 10 and was using administrator privileges to
>>         install LyX 2.3.5.2.
>>
>>         (The same happened with an ealier version of LyX.)
>>
>>         Strangely, this time I could not activate Acrobat Reader DC,
>>         even though I found the output file.
>>
>>         After a restart, everything was OK.
>>
>>         Bernd
>>
>>     Looks like after installing LyX as admin and then checking the
>>     box on the finish page to run LyX, runs it as admin too.
>>     I didn't put much thought into it when writing Installer2, I
>>     thought about it just a little. Because I found a comment in the
>>     code, which says that there was a bug report about this already
>>     and it has apparently been fixed already, so I didn't worry about
>>     it. But it's still not fixed.
>
>     This has been a problem for a long time.
>
>
>>     I have found that there is no easy way to run a process as a user
>>     from the NSIS installer, only the "hard" way, which means just
>>     using a plugin. I have found this plugin:
>>     https://nsis.sourceforge.io/ShellExecAsUser_plug-in.
>>     i will commit it to Installer2.
>
>     Good!
>
>
>>     Riki, is it worth putting it into Installer as well (for stable
>>     that is)? It would mean that you would need to install the plugin
>>     too.
>     This seems like a big enough change that we should probably wait
>     for 2.4.0. That said, would it be easy to disable the checkbox to
>     run LyX after install? That's what causes the problem.
>
>
> Do you mean disabling/removing the checkbox in the NSIS code, so that
> the user doesn't have the option to run LyX from the finish page? Yes,
> it should be easy. Do you want me to do it for the installer?

Yes, that is what I meant. Please do.

Riki


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