Removing icons for dead software

[SmartFinn]

Papirus icon theme is about 7 years in active development. During this time, many programs and projects were abandoned and died. As to me, it's time to clean up their icons from the icon theme.

Here is a list of unmaintained and abandoned apps that have stopped working or can't be installed from repositories on modern Linux distributions:

• [x] Ubuntu One Discontinued since 1st June 2014 the online service is no longer available.
• [x] Nylas Mail Lives it is archived and is no longer maintained since 2018
• [x] ODrive Abandoned and stop working
• [x] VGrive Abandoned and stop working
• [x] ScudCloud Discontinued. The project's repository has been archived.
• [x] SFLphone - dead website and unmaintained package. Replaced with Jami
• [x] Y PPA Manager was last updated in 2013 and no longer works.
• [x] btsync-gui stopped developing in 2015, when Bittorrent Sync was rebranded to Resilio Sync
• [x] Copy.com was discontinued on May 1, 2016
• [x] Glimpse Image Editor The Glimpse editor has been discontinued. Website and repo on GitHub were removed
• [ ] Empathy is an archived project. The last version, 3.25, released in August 2017. The latest versions of distros do not ship it in their repos, but last OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 and Ubuntu LTS 22.04 does. I'm not sure any of the provided protocol works.
• [x] RedshiftGUI The last release was in 2014. The repository has been archived on Dec 7, 2022.
• [x] Docky Last commit and last available version from 2015-09-02. Not available in last LTS releases
• [x] Gammy This project is not being worked on anymore. A new, linux-only version is being developed here, but it hasn't a GUI.
• [ ] AntiMicro The app is no longer maintained. Development continue in AntiMicroX. The app hasn't prebuilt binaries for modern distro, except openSUSE Leap 15.5. antimicro in Debian repository is actually AntiMicroX.
• [ ] Haroopad The project is abandoned. However, prebuilt deb package still installable on latest Ubuntu LTS release.
• [x] XChat The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.8.8, released in May 2010. Prebuild binaries are not available on modern distros.
• [ ] gtk-recordmydesktop The last changes were made in 2012. The package isn't available on modern distros.
• [x] PDFShuffler The last changes were made in 2018. The package isn't available on modern distros.
• [x] Comix The last version, 4.0.4, released in April 2009. The package isn't available on modern distros.
• [ ] Gnome Do doesn't work on modern systems. Last version, 0.95.3, released on November 2014, but can be still installed on latest Fedora from official repository.
• [x] youtube-indicator package is available on ppa:atareao/atareao for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but can't be installed because lack of dependencies (python2.7 or python3.8). Also, the indicator has hardcoded icons youtube-indicator.json
• [ ] Ekiga no longer developed. Last version, 4.0.1 stable and 5.0, released in 2013 and 2015, can be still installed on OpenMandriva and OpenSUSE Leap.
• [ ] Adobe Reader - 9.5.5 is the last available version for Linux released April 2013. 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x versions are still available for download on ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/, but it's hard to install and not recommended. See 08e74abe759272d69a2f78bd08b5203f217ee3cc
• [x] GnomeBaker Development stopped in 2008. No longer available in repos.
• [ ] GNOME 2.32.1 is the latest version of the GNOME 2.x Desktop released in November 2010. Distros with GNOME 2.x Desktop are dead now.
  • [x] gnome-panel*
  • [x] gnome-fs-*
• [x] gnome-mime-data (last release April 2007) provides the file type recognition data files for gnome-vfs (last release April 2008). SpaceFM still uses gnome-mime-* icons, but it looks for icons listed in shared-mime-info first.
• [x] Qt4 Ended 7 years and 10 months ago (31 Dec 2015)
• [x] Banshee latest release was in 2013-10-08, and no longer available for installing in modern distributions.
• [x] Docky Last commit and last available version from 2015-09-02, and no longer available for installing in modern distributions.
• [ ] Xnoise Media Player - The project was abandoned because there were no more contributors interested in the development.
• [x] Slic3r Prusa was renamed to PrusaSlicer in 2019
• [ ] Beaker Browser archived in Dec 27, 2022. See Beaker Browser is now archived. Back to live with Alex313031/beaker-ng.
• [ ] Markets discontinued in Mar 3, 2023. Seems it still works.
• [ ] BlueJeans by Verizon products and services will be retired in the first half of 2024. See BlueJeans is Being Sunset.
• [ ] ModernDeck stopped working because Twitter has shut down APIs for TweetDeck, rendering ModernDeck inoperable.
• [ ] Hatch Previewer is no longer supported. Last update committed in Aug 31, 2018. Flatpak package was removed.
• [x] Ferdi is not working right now and app is no longer available also. GitHub repo has been removed.
• [ ] dotFonts GitHub repo has been archived. The author recommends to use FontDownloader instead.
• [ ] Develop has been archived by the owner on Feb 22, 2022, but still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Odysseus has been discontinued, but still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Quotes an app for elementary OS. The repo has been removed. It still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Alias repository has been archived by the owner on Aug 30, 2021. It still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Bookmark Manager repository has been archived by the owner on Aug 30, 2021. It still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Lottery repository has been archived by the owner on Aug 30, 2021. It still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] PHP Tester repository has been archived by the owner on Aug 30, 2021. It still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Snaptastic repository has been archived by the owner on Aug 30, 2021. It still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] ValaCompiler is not long maintained. Last release in Aug 29, 2018. It still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Transporter has been archived by the owner on May 10, 2019.
• [ ] Exchange no longer available. The GitHub repo has been removed.
• [ ] Ephemeral has been archived by the owner on Apr 2, 2022. It still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Ideogram has been archived by the owner on Apr 2, 2022. It still available on AppCenter for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Tardis is no longer maintained. This repository has been archived on May 16, 2021. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Envelope is no longer available for install in elementaryOS. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] GoodVibes an another app for elementary OS. The repo has been removed. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki.
• [ ] Copy Paste Grab is not long maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Clipped is not long maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Formatter as the author wrote I'm not using elementary os now, so I stop this project developing. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera
• [ ] Elements is not long maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera. Flatpak has been removed.
• [ ] Chores is not long maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Loki.
• [ ] Optimizer This project is currently unmaintained and its repository has been archived on Mar 20, 2022. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Pushy is no longer maintained. This repository has been archived on Apr 16, 2020. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki.
• [ ] comgen is no longer maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Swatches is no longer maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki.
• [ ] Archetype is no longer maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki.
• [ ] Web Watcher is no longer maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki, but available on AUR.
• [ ] Aesop is deprecated. This repository has been archived on Jun 14, 2020. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Beemy is deprecated. This repository has been archived on Jun 14, 2020. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Coin is deprecated. This repository has been archived on Jun 14, 2020. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Palaura is deprecated. This repository has been archived on Jun 14, 2020. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Timetable is deprecated. This repository has been archived on Jun 14, 2020. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Yishu is deprecated. This repository has been archived on Jun 14, 2020. This app is only available for elementary OS 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Tomato is deprecated. This repository has been archived. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki.
• [ ] QR Share is no longer maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki.
• [ ] Tranqil is no longer maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki.
• [ ] Translator is no longer maintained and stopped working. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Karim (com.github.robertsanseries.karim) is an Elementary OS app. GitHub repo is no longer available.
• [ ] DayJournal is no longer maintained and not available on modern Linux distros, but still available on AUR.
• [ ] psnotes is no longer maintained. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki.
• [ ] notifier is deprecated. This app is only available for elementary OS Loki 5.1 Hera.
• [ ] Gestures is deprecated, but still available for installing on a few distros. See https://repology.org/project/gestures/versions
• [x] Metronome has been removed by the author.
• [ ] GNOME Twitch is no longer maintained because Twitch.tv updated their API and the application doesn't support it.
• [x] GNU Ring dead website and unmaintained package. Replaced with Jami.
• [ ] Gradio The successor of Gradio is Shortwave. Gradio will not be further developed. The Gradio API servers will no longer be available as of August 2020.
• [x] Remotely is no longer being developed. As an alternative, GNOME Connections can be used.
• [x] Nuvola Player project has discontinued active development. The project enters a one-year maintenance mode and will deliver integration bug fixes on a best-effort basis until the final End-of-Life on December 31, 2022. Website and Flathub repo are dead.
• [x] Gnomit is no longer maintained, users are advised to switch to Commit instead.
• [ ] ARK Desktop Wallet is no longer supported. Its repository has been archived.
• [x] WhatsAppQT is out of maintenance. Its repository has been archived.
• [x] Gravit Designer is no longer available for download. The product has been renamed to Corel Vector, but it is not a desktop app anymore.
• [ ] ZevDocs is end-of-life and will no longer be receiving updates.
• [x] Ambience is no longer maintained due to lack of time and motivation.
• [x] WMail is archived and is no longer maintained. The last version, 2.3.0, released on Mar 1, 2017. The package isn't available on modern distros.
• [x] openWMail is a fork of WMail that is dead too.
• [ ] Headlines is no longer maintained because of Reddit API changes. The app is still available in a few distros, but it's not working anymore.
• [ ] Patchwork is discontinued. The last version is v3.18.1, released on Apr 5, 2021.
• [ ] Corebird Vital Twitter API endpoints have been retired and as a consequence, Corebird is unmaintained and will not work in the future.
• [ ] Mist Browser has been deprecated. Ethereum Wallet is a part of this repo too.
• [ ] Cawbird as of January 2023, Cawbird for Twitter is no longer being developed. This is because Twitter changed the Developer Agreement to prohibit "creating a substitute for Twitter Applications" and revoked our primary API keys around 20th January
• [ ] Random The upstream repository of this application is archived on Sep 11, 2022
• [ ] GNOME Books is no longer maintained. The upstream repository has been archived about 1 year ago. Last version is 40.0, released on Mar 25, 2021.
• [ ] Bijiben has been renamed to gnome-notes since 3.31.1, on Otc 9, 2018.
• [ ] Banner Viewer is no longer maintained. Last commit is on Jun 10, 2020.
• [ ] GNOME Documents is end-of-life and will no longer be receiving updates. The repository has been moved to archive.
• [ ] FeedReader is no longer activily maintained. Last release is on May 23, 2020. The repository has been archived on Jan 12, 2023.
• [ ] gnome-games is no longer maintained. Last commit is on Jun 19, 2021. The repository has been moved to archive.
• [ ] pantheon-meteo is no longer maintained. Last commit is on Nov 14, 2021.
• [ ] indicator-kdeconnect is no longer maintained. The upstream repository has been archived on Apr 23, 2021. Last version is 0.9.4, released on Apr 9, 2018.
• [ ] Tomboy is no longer activily maintained. Last release is on Jul 16, 2017. Replaced by Tomboy-NG, but still available in Fedora.

[morganist]

@SmartFinn what's the process for deleting icons? Do find them individually in all folders and git remove them locally and then push? Asking in case you know a simpler method.

[SmartFinn]

@morganist I use fd icon_name.svg --exec-batch git rm and then check broken symlinks with make test_symlinks, but please do not remove icons by yourself. A lot of cases are controversial. I spend a lot of time to check all distro repos before remove an icon.

If you know any dead software, please add it to the list above.

[morganist]

By the way, adobe reader version 9.5.5 (2013) has an unofficial flatpak released on Flathub. It uses com.adobe.Reader icon. It's likely not going away anytime soon because it's a flatpak and can be installed anywhere with, like, no effort. I've heard some people use it. Just saying in case you'd want to delete it.

[SmartFinn]

@morganist

By the way, adobe reader version 9.5.5 (2013) has an unofficial flatpak released on Flathub

I know it, that's why I have left the icon. However, Adobe Reader for Linux is a dead software, so it's in the list.

[mambucodev]

gnome-games is being refactored, they're renaming it and began working on a new version as far as I know.