Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140183
removal of redhat specific icon names
Last modified: 2013-03-13 00:46:55 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: i would like to suggest the removal of all redhat specific menu item names. for instance the redhat-email.png should be named evolution.png. This is very useful when making icon themes that can work on multiple distributions. as it is right now we have to create many simlinks so that out icon themes will work on fedora. its not only annoying for icon theme writers but users as well. when they go an install a theme and none of the icons change because it wasnt made to work on redhat. going with the default gnome/kde icon names can only result in a desktop that IS NOT broken. im sure you have some reason for naming them with this redhat prefix but it is truly annoying. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-artwork-0.117-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.in stall any icon theme for instance SmoothGNOME 2. 3. Additional info:
it has come to my attention that the problem is that fedora is using "function specific" icons instead of branded icons. for instance redhat-email.png could be used for kmail or evolution or thunderbird. i find that this will end up confusing users in the long run. For example: today my fater sat down at this computer and asked where all his bookmarks went to. he clicked on the web browser icon which launched htmlview. the problem is that html view had changed from launching mozilla to launching firefox when we upgraded from fc2 to fc3. if we had a brand specific icon for each web browser this would not have been a problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180388 ***