On 11-10-26 11:59 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
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'.
+1
IMO, it's fine to change the "style" of an icon to make it fit in with the rest of the theme, but not to completely replace the icon. I mean if it was still a yellow genie bottle with the red things and smoke, but was glossier or shaded different or something, that's fine, and most icon themes do this. But to completely change the icon and replace it with a whole other icon, and then add non-translatable text so most users can't read it is just wrong. Even in Arabic, if it does spell "genie", it's still wrong (well, technically "geany" is wrong, but you know what I mean :).
I don't understand why the designer couldn't have used the blue background with the recognizable genie bottle ontop, or done just like was done with the firefox, thunderbird, chrome, etc. icons. Probably those companies would've legally made him/her remove the icons since AFAIK their icons are covered under a different license than their source code.
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.
The theme is called Faenza. I guess we can't really do anything more than to file a bug report or ask the designer to change it, since there's nothing illegal or anything with doing this, it's just stupid. Also, what license is Geany's icon covered under? I guess GPL by default since no other license is specified?
Here's some backup support[1][2][3][4] for your argument BTW to help persuade the designer and/or packager :)
Cheers, Matthew Brush
[1] http://identi.ca/egon0/tag/faenza [2] http://comments.deviantart.com/1/173323228/1705068006 [3] http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=141003&forumpage=1&P... (search for geany) [4] http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=128143 (search for geany)