On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:05:03PM +0100, ailoan wrote:Hello,Hi.I am a young graphist and I choose your soft (LyX-Mac) to work on a project for fun. I saw your icon and try to suggest you one more customized. Feel free to use it in any project you see fit. They are in SVG format for maximum flexibility. DL the archive at the URL : http://ailoan.free.fr/LyX-mac.zipLooks nice, and I would not oppose to use something like that. The "cosmetical" "problem" I see are the shadows of the letters, they look as if they came from different ngles. Is that intended? On the technical side, 1.5 MB is way too big for an icon, and there seems to be something wrong with the svg: I get messages like "** (inkscape:14141): CRITICAL **: SPCurve*"sp_curve_new_from_foreign_bpath(const NArtBpath*): assertion `new_bpath!= NULL' failed
Thanks for taking the initiative and designing these. To be honest, though, I don't like them. (I've attached low-resolution versions here, along with the current Mac icons for comparison.) The typography and colors feel wrong (too garish), and I'm not sure I like the protractor. The icons also seem too, well, cartoonish. (Of course, the LyX monster is cartoonish, but an improvement would make it less so, in accordance with standard practice on Mac; the LyX monster at least has the advantage of having a clear historical connection to LyX itself.)
That said, I'm certainly not opposed to changing the icon, especially to one that better evokes what LyX is -- which is not a scientific word processor but a structured document processor. But I do think we should tend to be conservative in this case: having the icon of your favorite writing tool change under you can be a jarring experience that should not be done without clearly good reasons. In any case, it's certainly not my decision to make; what do others think?
Bennett
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