2011/10/27 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:43:33 +0200, Liviu wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
My hard drive failed yesterday morning, so after installing a new one I decided to update the OS and installed the latest Linux Mint.
Imagine my surprise when the Geany icon wasn't the familiar teapot, but https://github.com/elextr/geany_stuff/raw/master/geany.svg.
I initially blamed Ubuntu since Geany was installed from its repository, sorry, but in fact Mint is overriding it with a theme.
This looks like Arabic script to me, so Frank, can any of your translators tell us what it says?
Well, Geany makes allusion to a 'genie' or 'jinn' [1], which is most known from the (Arabic, I assume) tale of Aladdin [2]. If you click on the 'Arabic' article in [1] you will be directed to 'جيني', which, to the best of my understanding of Arabic script (which is null), uses the same spelling as in the *.svg file [3]. So I would go with 'جيني' meaning Geany, in Arabic script. It would be cool to have this on the the main page of geany.org!
I hope this was meant ironic. I can't stand distros replacing application icons. No matter of people like the current icon or not, it is Geany's icon, meant to help identifying the application in the menu or whereever else the icon is used, same for the website. And in general, it's a specific application icon which are not to be replaced, it's not that it is a generic icon like 'file-manager' or 'open file'.
I think we should contact the package maintainer to remove this custom icon and use Geany's icon instead. I'll do this probably next week unless someone else beats me.
Regards, Enrico
I've gotta agree with Enrico, icons are meant to identify with the application/action they perform, something that happens over time, so they should not be changed arbitrarily by anyone. I can understand a theme changing the colours of an icon if it clashes badly, but not the basic image.
And icons are just that, they should not contain text in *any* language since that restricts the identification of the icon with the use of the icon to those who read that language.
So everyone should complain :)
Cheers Lex
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