[ this is a continuation of comments at http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7919 ]
Comment(by lasgouttes):
> I think it would be interesting to discuss this on the lyx-devel list.
Hi lasgouttes, thanks for commenting! I just subscribed to the mailinglist.
> We should take this occasion to make sure that we use the same icon on all
> platforms.
That would be nice, I often have trouble finding LyX on my
girlfriend's Mac, because the icons are so different :-)
> Concerning Linux, I think we have a bug open about providing a lyx.desktop
> file and installing it at the "right place". It would be great if we could
> settle this too.
I could provide a patch for that. It would be easy to just copy the
one from the Debian package. I'd have to look into the build system to
know how to only install it for the Linux version.
> Concerning desktop icon theme, it is supposed to "just work" if the linux
> distrib provides icons for us? I am not sure how these things are supposed
> to work.
This is how it works on Linux: applications install their own icons in
/usr/share/icons/hicolor, and then use the theming engine to load an
icon (like in my proposed patch). Then the user can install her own
icons in /usr/share/icons/{theme-name}, and then these icons will be
used, totally transparent from the applications point of view. This
could even be used for the toolbar icons (but that's probably a huge
undertaking).
