search

numixproject / numix-core

Builder for App Icon Themes
GNU General Public License v3.0
767 stars 146 forks source link

Is system-restart an app icon? #5763

Open palob opened 2 years ago

palob commented 2 years ago

Another one which is present in the base theme and possibly should not be included in the app icon themes.

KBeDevel commented 2 years ago

In most systems, the reboot function is not considered as an application entry.

At least in KDE Plasma icon list (with the numix circle theme installed), there is a group named "actions". Filtered by the term reboot, you can see these results:

image

There are no results returned for the term reboot in the applications group:

image

Considering this case, i think the reboot itself is a reference to a system action/job.

On the other side, if we consider a system action reference as a formal call to a group of resources or a command execution, it can be considered as an application, indeed. So, to set a rule to determinate or filter if something is an application or not, the criteria could be, for example, the .desktop extension.

palob commented 2 years ago

Thank you for sharing your insights. I think the icons were added because some DEs show(ed) those in menus just like app launchers. These days I guess there are more cases where the app icon will look out of place than cases where it helps.

palob commented 2 years ago

Just noticed this is/was being addressed in #4585.