GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 746716
ship your own app icons
Last modified: 2016-09-22 04:56:05 UTC
We've been struggling to avoid clashes where mate forks of gnome software use identical icons and metadata. An app's icon should really be part of its identity, you don't want to take it from a general icon theme, and risk identity theft. epiphany should install both a fullcolor and a symbolic version of its app icon.
To clarify: are you asking for a brand new icon? I can copy the existing web-browser icon from adwaita-icon-theme and rename it, but it's still going to look the same as the MATE fork unless another icon theme is in use. If you want a new icon... I can create an icon request on the art request wiki page, but I can't make icons myself. I don't think we any symbolic web browser icon, so the same applies for that. (Aside: I didn't realize MATE had forked Epiphany... I wonder how well that is going for them....)
I don't know if epiphany is one of the forked apps, tbh. But I would not be surprised at all if another web browser decided that the generic web-browser icon is just fine. And then we have a clash. I would discuss with jimmac which approach is best - copy the existing icon to epiphany and come up with a new (probably blander, more generic) web-browser icon for the theme, or some other approach.
I'll take this opportunity to improve a few details while moving the app icon to epiphany. No major change in the metaphor, unless Lapo wants to intervene.
Go ahead Jakub; thanks!
Jakub, noooope, I totally trust your judgment :-)
ping. did we get an icon ?
No. I use NEEDINFO to indicate we still await Jakub's latest masterpiece.
I dropped the ball here, sorry. Will take a look this week.
Created attachment 314215 [details] The concept will need some work...
Thanks, but note that Epiphany is just a code name that GNOME people use, it's not user-visible anywhere, so I don't think it makes sense to have the e as part of the icon. It's reminiscent of the e in Evince's icon, which suffers from the same problem.
Hi, I am closing all Epiphany bugs currently in the NEEDINFO state. If you can provide the requested information or you feel this bug was closed in error, please leave a comment. Thanks!
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #7) > No. I use NEEDINFO to indicate we still await Jakub's latest masterpiece. Maybe closing bugs without looking at them was a bad idea. Reopening!
WARNING: The icon name "web-browser" is now hardcoded in ephy-about-handler.c.
Created attachment 335912 [details] new app icon We failed to come up with a new metaphor, but we gave the old one a good rebuild with Lapo. One noteworthy thing is that the highres is 512x512 instead of the typical 256x256. We're going to do that to all app icons now.
(In reply to Jakub Steiner from comment #14) > Created attachment 335912 [details] > new app icon > > We failed to come up with a new metaphor, but we gave the old one a good > rebuild with Lapo. One noteworthy thing is that the highres is 512x512 > instead of the typical 256x256. We're going to do that to all app icons now. Looks great to me, thanks!
(In reply to Jakub Steiner from comment #14) > Created attachment 335912 [details] > new app icon > > We failed to come up with a new metaphor, but we gave the old one a good > rebuild with Lapo. One noteworthy thing is that the highres is 512x512 > instead of the typical 256x256. We're going to do that to all app icons now. LGTM except for the 256x256 icon, which is from the previous proposal. I presume this is a mistake, so could you fix it and reupload? We also need to install a symbolic icon, of course. Do you want me to copy it from web-browser-symbolic, or will you be providing a different icon for this too?
Discussed on IRC. We're dropping the 22x22 and the 256x256 icons. I'll copy web-browser-symbolic and install it as epiphany-symbolic.