On 14 October 2012 21:23, Matthew Brush <mbrush@codebrainz.ca> wrote:
On 12-10-14 03:11 AM, Lex Trotman wrote:
On 14 October 2012 19:50, Thomas Martitz <
thomas.martitz@student.htw-berlin.de> wrote:

Am 14.10.2012 09:05, schrieb Lex Trotman:

  Hi All,

Geany has in the past specified a fixed image, (the jewel encrusted
teapot), as the icon to use for its top level window.

There has been a request for Geany to follow the icon set by the theme.
  This has been committed.


I'm very curious that application icons be themed at all. IMO the icon
belongs to the application and is part of its identity, and not some theme.
This is also why Linux Mint makes me mad because of its icons for various
applications including Geany.

(I always switch the icon theme to a less intrusive one [GNOME-Wise which
resembles the Mint-y look a bit] on a fresh Mint installation).


Yes, why do theme developers feel that it is a benefit to users to keep
changing the application icon in each theme.  The icon is intended to
identify the application, changing it removes that identification that the
user is used to between the icon and the application and devalues the brand
value of the project.  There are many things that can be done but normally
should not be done, and this is one of them.


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.

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.

From your previous:

> 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].
>
> [1] In your case the choice to override the default icon was made by your distro, but it's still explicitly overriding the default.

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.

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.

Cheers
Lex


Cheers,
Matthew Brush


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