Bo Peng wrote:
No, because otherwise our documents will not compile. They use
InsetGraphics with these files ...
Well, I see that more as a limitation of InsetGraphics. We should be able to
point to a graphics embedded inside the executable, I'll think about that.
Not installing those hundreds of icons would be a nice improvement IMO. LyX
works fine without them because they are already all embedded. But the
embedded versions are used only the icon files are not present.
Then how would you export our document to latex? The icon files have
to be somewhere, regardless the inset we use.
If you really want to use graphics embedded inside the executable, you
would have to change InsetGraphics so that it can refer icons from lyx
executable, and extract these icons during latex export;
Yes.
or let
InsetInfo extract these icons, and use InsetGraphics to show them.
Both methods are complicated so I prefer to keep distributing our
icons as the way it is now.
You are judging in advance before knowing. FWIW, this would be not very
different than relying on Latex to find some bibtex file through kpswitch.
Abdel.
