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Moka Icon Theme
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Icon Request: ksystemlog #393

Closed snwh closed 5 years ago

snwh commented 5 years ago

Icon Request

from email: ksystemlog

ghost commented 5 years ago

As I've said in an e-mail, it's actually the Faba theme that lacks the icon. The Moka theme has the icon. My mistake. Sorry. I'd be happy enough were the Moka icon just copied to the Faba theme, I think.

snwh commented 5 years ago

Ah, well the Faba theme isn't meant to contain extra app icons. It's just a very minimal sub-theme for the Moka set.

ghost commented 5 years ago

Hmm. When I tell Linux Mint to use the Faba icons, my dock (Plank) looks like this:

faba

By contrast, here's the dock using Moka:

moka

Ah, but do you mean the following? The Faba icons provide alternatives for some of the Moka icons; but most icons in the two sets are identical?

At any rate: I like the way my icons - on the dock and elsewhere - look using the Faba set; but, using that Faba set, I do lack an icon for ksystemlog (see the blank-ish icon towards the middle of the dock in the first picture).

snwh commented 5 years ago

What I mean is that Faba is just a set of generic icons. It doesn't provide icons for any apps, except the generic ones like utilities-terminal. I wouldn't include a ksystemlog in Faba just like I wouldn't include a Firefox icon, that's what Moka is for.

The consistency between how the icons look is only because the two themes are related.

:thinking: You would only see that blank-ish icon when the app itself doesn't have an icon, which is odd.

ghost commented 5 years ago

Ah, so, when the theme does not provide an icon, the application itself should do so? Right. But this is not working for the Faba icons. When I have the Faba icon theme selected, both plank and desktop launchers show a generic icon for ksystemlog - whereas, when I use another icon theme, ksystemlog gets a non-generic icon.

Reinstalling ksystemguard made no difference.

Is this a Mint (or Cinnamon) problem, a Ksysguard problem, or a Faba problem? (The flipside of the joy of Linux is the problem assigning responsibility.)

ghost commented 5 years ago

Let me add: I would switch to the Paper theme and be done with it - for I prefer that to Faba, anyway - but, as I think I reported to you via a separate e-mail, simply installing the Paper icon theme - and not fiddling with the mouse theme - results in gigantic carets in some applications.

snwh commented 5 years ago

Using Faba as a standalone icon set isn't really ideal for a lot of folks, it's a lot like using just the GNOME/Adwaita icon set (which also wouldn't have a ksystemlog icon). Themes like Paper, Moka and others ship 1000s of icons for "third-party" apps.

You can use the Paper icon set and not the Paper cursor set, unless Mint does some silly thing and sets them both at the same time.

ghost commented 5 years ago

Thanks. Yet,

  1. the point that I thought I'd managed to grasp was as follows. Even if Faba lacks an icon for X, my dock and desktop should still be able to display a non-generic icon for X. Other icon themes manage this. Why doesn't Faba, for this particular icon?

  2. As to paper, I've filed a separate bug report - here (paper, issue #678).

snwh commented 5 years ago

I understand what's you're saying. My point is that, bluntly, I'm not going put a ksystemlog icon in Faba since that's out of the scope of the project (also closing since the icon is already in Moka).

Why ksystemlog is not display an icon would be an issue with that app or with its .desktop file (you can check as see what it specifies for it Icon= field)