On Jul 18, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Hellmut Weber wrote:
On 18.07.2010 14:39, John Kane wrote:
--- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Richard Heck <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
To: "Bruce Pourciau" <[email protected]>
Cc: "LyXFolks" <[email protected]>
Received: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 10:07 AM
On 07/17/2010 09:43 AM, Bruce
Pourciau wrote:
Looking at the icons in the dock of my Mac, it's hard
not to notice that the LyX icon -- with Lydia sitting on top
of the letters LyX -- being relatively complicated, is less
readily identifiable and less "graphic" than other icons.
Most icons are simpler, and more successful IMHO because of
that simplicity. Now I'm really fond of Lydia, and I
wouldn't want her to snap at me if she were to get dumped,
but what would LyX folks think about just using the letters
LyX alone (just the letters, no background even)? It would
be simple, graphically strong, but also unusuIal, since few
icons are the same as the name of the application. Just a
thought.
There is an older LyX icon that seems to turn up here for
some reason and that just has the letters, more or less.
rh
Is this a Mac thing? In XP I just get a slightly garish, multi-
coloured LyX layout that is very easy to find. I had to go to the
LyX website to see who Lydia is.
Same thing here on my gentoo linux box: the icon in the panel is just
the one appearing in the upper left corner od the www.lyx.org
homepage ;-)
Very nice, highly suggestive and easy to identify
Cheers
Hellmut
It's odd then that it's different on the Mac. Even more reason --
uniformity of "graphic identity" -- that the Mac icon should be just
the letters LyX.
Bruce
