mludwig added a comment.
In D17310#370758 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D17310#370758>, @ngraham wrote: > I would not recommend embedding the app name into the icon itself. The text isn't localizable, the icon would become really cramped, and in any event it would look weird since no other app does this. > > For those reasons, our HIG specifically recommends against this: https://hig.kde.org/style/icon.html?highlight=icons#general-guidelines Well, it's not really arbitrary text, but the name of the application, so I it wouldn't be localized much. Besides, Kile's official icons have contained the character "K" or the string "Kile" for over 15 years. F6453199: kile_big.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6453199> F6453202: favicon.ico <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6453202> Off the top of my head, another example of such an icon design is the one of Evince <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince>, which contains a stylized letter 'e' - I know it's from the competition ;) Or to some extent, the icon of kcharselect, which I really like. The biggest issue that I have with the square root icon is that it doesn't symbolize enough that it's the icon of an application. To me, it just looks like the application of a file type. Some dynamic element is missing, like a pencil, for example, to indicate that it's an application for editing such files. REPOSITORY R266 Breeze Icons BRANCH improve-kile-icon (branched from master) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D17310 To: trickyricky26, #vdg, ngraham, #kile Cc: mludwig, ndavis, ngraham, kde-frameworks-devel, michaelh, bruns
