[Geany-Users] Geany Icon

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 14/10/2012 09:05, Lex Trotman a écrit :
> Hi All,

Hey,

> 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.

Incomplete BTW, only the main window had it changed, and the icon was
looked up manually -- but implementation is another topic I'll discuss
on the devel list.

> However one of the icons provided by some themes has caused some
> consternation.

The Faenza theme (which looks like much loved since people use it more
en more, and even distros uses it by default) did something very
questionable: changing the visual identity of the Geany icon.  That's
NOT our problem.  We don't have anything to do with Faenza.

BTW, the Faenza theme changes lots of application's icons for them to
fit with it (e.g. square icons).  That was greatly done for many apps,
including -- but not limited to ;) -- Iceweasel, Icedove, GEdit,
Rhythmbox, Empathy, Chromium, Blender, LibreOffice, Abiword, Nautilus
and Inkscape;  and poorly for some others, including Geany and Gimp.

I bet you don't complain about Faenza icons for Rhythmbox or GEdit.  The
problem here is only that the Faenza authors choose to change completely
the look of the icon loosing the visual identity of the original icon.
If they had kept the yellow lamp with the rubies, everybody would've
been happy and we wouldn't have this loooooooong thread.  15 mails in
less than a day is not that common :)

> So an option to continue to use the Geany icon instead of the theme has
> also been committed.

I'm 100% with Matthew: that's a really bad idea.  Adding a setting to
"fix" a theme?  Please, no.  If we go down this road, we'll end up
having 3k options to workaround various themes "issues" and alike, which
will make actually theming Geany impossible.  See: if I wanted my themed
to use a slightly different icon, what would I need to do?  I couldn't
simply change/add a themed Geany icon, I'd need to also change a setting
in Geany -- setting I may not know about.

Again, it's not our problem.  We provide an icon, our icon, and some
crazy people found it a good idea to change it radically in their theme.
 That's not our problem.  That's the theme's author problem, and that's
the problem of the distros using that theme by default.  Definitely not
our own.

Finally, we definitely should follow the theme's icon because it's the
one used in the menus; and we can't (and shouldn't) change that.  If
people don't like their theme's icon, they probably also want to have it
changed in the menus/launchers/application list/etc; so they need to
change it in the theme anyway.


So, IM(not H at all)O, we should drop the setting and simply use the
theme's icon.  We install our icon in the theme, people do what they
want with their ability to override it.  If they do it correctly,
everybody will be happy.  If they do it badly, people should blame those
people.

Regards,
Colomban

> This mail is to get users preference for the default setting, use the Geany
> icon or use the theme icon (with the Geany one as a fallback if the theme
> has none).
> 
> Users can always change the setting at any time, this is only what should
> be the default.
> 
> Cheers
> Lex