Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On 18. juli 2010 18:15, Manolo Martínez wrote: In this connection, I don't know if any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. Looks like that icon was designed for a specific background color. I.e. is uses something like a fade to white instead of a fade to transparency. The latter works for more background colors.
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On 18. juli 2010 18:15, Manolo Martínez wrote: In this connection, I don't know if any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. Looks like that icon was designed for a specific background color. I.e. is uses something like a fade to white instead of a fade to transparency. The latter works for more background colors.
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On 18. juli 2010 18:15, Manolo Martínez wrote: In this connection, I don't know if any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. Looks like that icon was designed for a specific background color. I.e. is uses something like a "fade to white" instead of a "fade to transparency". The latter works for more background colors.
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On Aug 1, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19 juil. 10 à 19:49, Pavel Sanda a écrit : 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 i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel I think the right answer is that all installers should use the same icon, with several bitmap and svg versions. JMarc Then for simplicity and graphic identity I vote for the letters L y X alone, leaving Lydia out. Bruce
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On Aug 1, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19 juil. 10 à 19:49, Pavel Sanda a écrit : 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 i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel I think the right answer is that all installers should use the same icon, with several bitmap and svg versions. JMarc Then for simplicity and graphic identity I vote for the letters L y X alone, leaving Lydia out. Bruce
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On Aug 1, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19 juil. 10 à 19:49, Pavel Sanda a écrit : 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" i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel I think the right answer is that all installers should use the same icon, with several bitmap and svg versions. JMarc Then for simplicity and "graphic identity" I vote for the letters L y X alone, leaving Lydia out. Bruce
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
Le 19 juil. 10 à 19:49, Pavel Sanda a écrit : 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 i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel I think the right answer is that all installers should use the same icon, with several bitmap and svg versions. JMarc
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
Le 19 juil. 10 à 19:49, Pavel Sanda a écrit : 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 i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel I think the right answer is that all installers should use the same icon, with several bitmap and svg versions. JMarc
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
Le 19 juil. 10 à 19:49, Pavel Sanda a écrit : 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" i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel I think the right answer is that all installers should use the same icon, with several bitmap and svg versions. JMarc
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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" i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
--- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: From: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu Cc: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 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.
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On 18.07.2010 14:39, John Kane wrote: --- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: From: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu Cc: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 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 -- Dr. Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 rgh...@comcast.net wrote: From: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu Cc: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 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
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
In this connection, I don't know if any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. Manolo attachment: gnomedolyx.jpg
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
I'm suprised to say it but the one on XP looks a lot better. --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: From: Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Received: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 12:15 PM In this connection, I don't know if any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. Manolo
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
--- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: From: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu Cc: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 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.
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On 18.07.2010 14:39, John Kane wrote: --- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: From: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu Cc: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 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 -- Dr. Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 rgh...@comcast.net wrote: From: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu Cc: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 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
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
In this connection, I don't know if any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. Manolo attachment: gnomedolyx.jpg
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
I'm suprised to say it but the one on XP looks a lot better. --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: From: Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Received: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 12:15 PM In this connection, I don't know if any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. Manolo
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
--- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > From: Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? > To: "Bruce Pourciau" <bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu> > Cc: "LyXFolks" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> > 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.
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On 18.07.2010 14:39, John Kane wrote: > > > --- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> From: Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> >> Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? >> To: "Bruce Pourciau" <bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu> >> Cc: "LyXFolks" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> >> 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 -- Dr. Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: From: Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: "Bruce Pourciau" <bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu> Cc: "LyXFolks" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> 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
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
In this connection, I don't know if any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. Manolo <>
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
I'm suprised to say it but the one on XP looks a lot better. --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Manolo Martínez <man...@austrohungaro.com> wrote: > From: Manolo Martínez <man...@austrohungaro.com> > Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 12:15 PM > In this connection, I don't know if > any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX > through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low > resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. > > Manolo >
Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 unusual, since few icons are the same as the name of the application. Just a thought. Bruce
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 unusual, 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
Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 unusual, since few icons are the same as the name of the application. Just a thought. Bruce
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 unusual, 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
Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 unusual, since few icons are the same as the name of the application. Just a thought. Bruce
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
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 unusual, 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
