Gwenael Gabard wrote: > Hi, I haven't contributed to the development of Lyx so far but I was > thinking of preparing an alternative set of icons. I had a quick look at > the Crystal icons theme used in KDE and I think there are plenty of > existing icons that can be used (some new icons will be needed though). > What I can do is prepare a set of alternative icons and send some pictures > to this list to get your opinions. Before I start doing this, my question > is: is this something that will be welcome by you guys?
Generally, I'd say such attempts are welcome. However, given the fact that LyX runs on several platforms, some of which use themes, the problem is to find an icon set that looks equally good everywhere. Rather than replacing our (also KDE-derived) icon set with another one, it would be worth investigating into the use of stock icons, i.e. using the icon theme currently used by the OS or DE. For Linux, one would probably have to follow freedesktop.org's recommendations (that would at least work with recent GNOME and KDE 4, i.e. Oxygen): http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icon-naming-spec which sontains rather detailed technical hints. For the other OSes, I don't know. Jürgen
