LyX 2.3.5.2 Relesed

Yu Jin yu_jin at lyx.org
Sun Jul 12 17:04:42 UTC 2020


Am So., 12. Juli 2020 um 17:34 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <
rikiheck at lyx.org>:

> 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>:
>
>> 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
>> >:
>>
>>> 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.
>
Done!

Eugene
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