Well, even if it just gets ignored, I think that its best to leave a bug
somewhere.

How can I push this issue upstream?

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Brian Curtis <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Michael, this is because the empathy devs wont change it.  The ubuntu
> devs stick to upstream as much as they can, and something as small as
> changing the icon theme may not hit their radar anytime in this century.
> If you would like to we can push this to the icon theme people in ubuntu
> and wishlist it to see if they will look into it.  personal opinion is
> it will just stay ignored.
>
> --
> Usability: Icons are confusing
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394065
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> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> The "busy" and "away" icons are confusing.
>
> Busy should not be green (green is go, proceed), and should not have a page
> on top of it (page looks like a message arrived).
>
> Away should not be red and specially not a triangle (red means problem and
> a red triangle twice as much, in some countries it is standard car equipment
> for emergency stops).  There are other unwanted connotations with red
> triangles (family planning, the badge used by political prisoners in nazi
> camps).
>

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