On Tue 13 Mar 2012, 8:17:00, Morten Omholt Alver <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> On 3 March 2012 03:38, Pete Crite<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have LyX files associated with particular articles. When I open them
>> through JabRef, the Unity dock shows a JabRef application icon for the
>> LyX program. This is also seen in the alt-tab application switcher. This
>> makes it hard to switch to the correct program, since LyX has the wrong
>> icon.
>>
>> Another odd thing is the JabRef icon is slightly different to the
>> default. This is seen in both the dock and the alt-tab switcher. Here is
>> a screenshot of the switcher [1]. (Also note that the default
>> application icon has a quite poor resolution.) I do not see this
>> behaviour when I open attached pdfs or text documents, which open as
>> normal in the relevant application.
>>
>> Should I create a bug report for the LyX issue (and the icon resolution
>> issue)?
>
> Yes, it would be a good thing to have a bug report for this. I can't
> immediately tell what is the problem - I don't know how the Unity
> desktop environment decides which icon to use for each application,
> perhaps it is caused by the JabRef process somehow being the parent
> process of LyX - in that case perhaps we can fix it by starting the
> external program in a way that makes it independent.
>
> For the default icon, we should perhaps use a larger version to avoid
> scaling-up. Are you using JabRef installed from the Ubuntu
> repositories (if available), or have you downloaded the jar file from
> SourceForge?
>

I've created the bug report for the incorrect icon.

As for the poor resolution, I'm using the JabRef version from the repos 
(Version: 2.7~beta1+ds-5).

Cheers.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Try before you buy = See our experts in action!
The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers
is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3,
Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now!
http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2
_______________________________________________
Jabref-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users

Reply via email to