There used to be a good icon some time ago but then it changed to the current icon which looks like "generic file" or "broken icon". Current icon: http://www.softwarecrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/libreoffice_icon.png Very similar to generic OS icon: http://11986-presscdn-0-77.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/generic-icon.jpg Every time I see libreoffice writer icon I am confused, I always think for a fraction of second that something broke in my system and it is unable to find the icon or it can't render the original icon properly. Once I was trying to find a running libreoffice window in my dock and I was subconsciously skipping this icon. Why not make a new icon or at least modify the current one and place SOMETHING inside this blank page?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 96835 ***