[Geany-devel] Geany icon on Mint

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Lex Trotman <elextr at 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 may have gotten carried away with the links. Go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geany

and click on the Arabic link, and you will get
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/جيني

containing 'Geany' spelled in Arabic.

Liviu


> Any Arab reader or speaker please correct. Regards
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alladin
> [3] http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/جيني
>
>> Things like "Geany" or "Worlds best editor" would be acceptable, but
>> "may your code be infested with bugs" might not :)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
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