At the moment, gnome-control-center's .desktop file uses the preferences-system icon. The preferences-system icon is a category icon. That strikes me as an incorrect thing to do, because it limits what icon theme authors can do[1] and (with my web dev hat on) it feels semantically wrong. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mono/+bug/921061
Am I right that it's incorrect to use something other than an application icon for an application? Is this specified somewhere? If it isn't, I'd like to suggest that it be added to the Desktop Entry Specification. (And perhaps desktop-file-validate should complain in this case, too). The example above really sucks because we have a major distro ditching a standard icon name because it isn't being used properly. Thanks, Dylan _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
