Dear list, I've been very very happy about Lyx since I found it. Thank you!
However, I think it would be a neat development to put Lyx straight into the windowing system's menu after installing. On Linux (KDE and Gnome), this is achieved using desktop entry specs, as documented here: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec I did this on Slackware Linux 13.1 running KDE 4 by putting into /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop : ------------------------------ [Desktop Entry] Name=Lyx Comment=A Wysiwym LaTeX editor TryExec=/usr/bin/lyx Exec=/usr/bin/lyx Icon=/usr/share/lyx/images/lyx.png Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Development;Science; StartupNotify=false ------------------------------- Optimally, the paths would be automatically generated, and perhaps the categories could be something else - I just picked the most fitting categories I already had in my menu. Lyx could also go into the main category "Office", or additional categories "WordProcessor", "Presentation", "Publishing", "TextTools", "TextEditor", "Literature" and/or "Math". All recognized categories are listed here: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html The comment field could also have something else! Please consider this proposal! I think Lyx might be putting itself on the desktop in windows too, and even when some linux distributions do desktop integration in their packaging, not all do. Some people also install from compiling sources. And the packager's job could be easier by that much :). It would be a fine detail for the upcoming 2.0.0! Best regards, -Jonni Lehtiranta ps. I don't know anything more about desktop entry specs.
