2011/10/27 Enrico Tröger <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:43:33 +0200, Liviu wrote: > >>On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> 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 > -- > Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc > > _______________________________________________ > Geany-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel > > _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
