On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 15:36 +0100, Frederic-Emmanuel PICCA wrote: > John Levon wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:05:42PM +0100, Leuven, E. wrote: > >>* the icons are extremely ugly (and very inconsistent in style) > > We badly need an artist on staff. > > What about using the same icones than openoffice or abiword etc... where > we can, and create a new set for others ?
I suggest that the Tango guidelines be considered. It's not clear how far these will be adopted by KDE and GNOME, but it's a step toward a more universal look: http://tango-project.org/Generic_Icon_Theme_Guidelines One notable usability problem with the icons as they are is that some of the math icons in particular are purely black-on-transparent - they are almost invisible when using a white-on-black desktop theme. I would point out that the GTK frontend uses GTK+ stock icons for things like load/save/search and so on. The point of this is to obey the user's theme. The qt frontend could do the same thing with KDE icons I suppose. There is scope in the GTK frontend at least to use more system-themed icons, automatically picking up what's used in abiword as opposed to duplicating the image files. I may look into this. In my view it is far more important to have LyX look like its environment than it is to identify a visual style for LyX itself. Wherever possible the frontends should try and pick up icons from the desktop theme. By the way, I have a nicer, larger .png/alpha application icon for lyx (than the little xpm) which is good for people using big icons on panels and so on. I can find it (on my home machine) if anyone's interested in including it in 1.4. Cheers, John
