Bennett Helm wrote: > On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote: > >> Bennett Helm wrote: >> >>> OSX typically has 2 icon sizes that can be selected -- normal and small. >>> >>> By my lights, the trouble with the icons in 1.5 is not that the icons >>> themselves are too big or small, but that there is too much empty space >>> around each icon. It looks as though that could be reduced significantly >>> without altering the substance of the icon. >>> >>> Bennett >>> >> >> The Qt docs states: >> "QIcon can always generate a smaller pixmap from the set of pixmaps it >> is given, but it never scales them up, because this rarely looks good. >> This is why we get the 48 x 48 pixmap when we request a 64 x 64 pixmap." >> >> Maybe on the Mac the tool bars are too big for the the icons. >> You could try to change the icon size in the session file >> (IconSizeXY) and then starting LyX again and see what happens. > > That does work. However, what I'd like to do is be able to set them to a > reasonable size for Mac users generally (and not tell others to edit the > session file). Is there a way to do that short of having an installer > create the session file and then write a line to it? > > Bennett
Editing the session file was just the tip for you to figure out what are the best sizes for the Mac. ;) When we know the numbers we could handle it in the code. -- Peter Kümmel
