<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 October 2012 21:23, Matthew Brush <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbrush@codebrainz.ca" target="_blank">mbrush@codebrainz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 12-10-14 03:11 AM, Lex Trotman wrote:<br>
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On 14 October 2012 19:50, Thomas Martitz <<br>
<a href="mailto:thomas.martitz@student.htw-berlin.de" target="_blank">thomas.martitz@student.htw-<u></u>berlin.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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Am 14.10.2012 09:05, schrieb Lex Trotman:<br>
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Hi All,<br>
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Geany has in the past specified a fixed image, (the jewel encrusted<br>
teapot), as the icon to use for its top level window.<br>
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There has been a request for Geany to follow the icon set by the theme.<br>
This has been committed.<br>
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I'm very curious that application icons be themed at all. IMO the icon<br>
belongs to the application and is part of its identity, and not some theme.<br>
This is also why Linux Mint makes me mad because of its icons for various<br>
applications including Geany.<br>
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(I always switch the icon theme to a less intrusive one [GNOME-Wise which<br>
resembles the Mint-y look a bit] on a fresh Mint installation).<br>
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Yes, why do theme developers feel that it is a benefit to users to keep<br>
changing the application icon in each theme. The icon is intended to<br>
identify the application, changing it removes that identification that the<br>
user is used to between the icon and the application and devalues the brand<br>
value of the project. There are many things that can be done but normally<br>
should not be done, and this is one of them.<br>
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IMO, it depends. If it's done properly, it can be made to match the other icons in the theme and still maintain the "identity" of the application. For example if all the icons were in a blue square with rounded corners, then it makes sense for Geany's icon to be the yellow lamp with red jewels in a blue square with rounded corners to match the theme. It doesn't make sense to make it an Arabic word that a huge portion of users won't be able to read and otherwise has no "identity" of Geany.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, you are right it *can*, but in the case of the Faenza icon it hasn't been, and there was another one someone had invented for Geany that I encountered on my recent perusal of other distros and DEs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>From your previous:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">> The DE/GTK mechanism is not complex: if you don't want to override Geany's icon, don't override it with your own icon[1].</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
><br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">> [1] In your case the choice to override the default icon was made by your distro, but it's still explicitly overriding the default.</span></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Thats the point it is not my icon choice, I am stuck with the whole theme or nothing unless I start playing with the complexities.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">As I said before, I don't care which way the default is set, to use the theme or to use Geanys icon, so long as there is a simple way of "fixing" the Geany icon. Lets see what others say.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Cheers</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Lex</font></div><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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Cheers,<br>
Matthew Brush<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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