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Bug 759769 - Need a symbolic icon for editing
Need a symbolic icon for editing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: adwaita-icon-theme
Classification: Core
Component: symbolic
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: adwaita-icon-theme maintainer(s)
adwaita-icon-theme maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-12-22 08:19 UTC by Marcus Lundblad
Modified: 2017-08-06 03:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
symbolic: provide document-edit (7.51 KB, patch)
2016-01-06 14:30 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		committed Details | Review

Description Marcus Lundblad 2015-12-22 08:19:20 UTC 
In gnome-maps I've used "edit-symbolic" for the button to open a location in the edit dialog for updating OpenStreetMap data.
Now, we've realised that this icon actually comes from Geary (I hadn't realized this, just assumed it came from the theme when I tried that icon name).

It might make sense to have this in the icon theme, I think (if I remember correcly, there was some mentioning of this also for gnome-photos).
Comment 1 Debarshi Ray 2016-01-06 14:06:45 UTC 
(In reply to Marcus Lundblad from comment #0)
> It might make sense to have this in the icon theme, I think (if I remember
> correcly, there was some mentioning of this also for gnome-photos).

We have data/icons/image-edit-symbolic.svg in gnome-photos.
Comment 2 Jonas Danielsson 2016-01-06 14:08:40 UTC 
Ah that is probably the one we want for edit OSM data in Maps as well! The pen right?

Could it be icon theme?
Comment 3 Jakub Steiner 2016-01-06 14:30:34 UTC 
Created attachment 318330 [details] [review]
symbolic: provide document-edit

While I find a pencil a poor metaphor for a general edit action
(editing a photo is distinctively different to editing a text
document or a music composition), I succumb to the pressure to
have it publically consumable.
Comment 4 Jakub Steiner 2016-01-06 14:31:04 UTC 
Attachment 318330 [details] pushed as fc95bf1 - symbolic: provide document-edit
Comment 5 Jonas Danielsson 2016-01-07 08:32:42 UTC 
Thanks! Are there plans for a icon/metaphor for a general edit action? So that we could harmonize around that instead?
Comment 6 Daniel Boles 2017-08-06 03:04:50 UTC 
I presume it's intentional that no non-symbolic version exists? If so, is that because of the perceived limited usefulness, and/or because you want to encourage people to use symbolic icons rather than non-symbolic ones?