hp@xxxxxxxxxx (Havoc Pennington) writes: >> Why are these icons used and not the original ones? > > We use a consistent icon theme across the whole desktop and apps. > Application-specific theme systems are generally considered Evil. I do not think so. A consistent theme across applications which are used only from time-to-time is ok. But when you use regularly an application you will want to configure certain aspects without affecting other apps with these settings. E.g. in an often used application I need only the graphical icons, while I appreciate a text description in seldom used apps. Or, my XEmacs looks best with a dark gray as background whereas gnome uses white. The result can be found at [1]. Or, it is ok when most applications use a common proxy setting. But for web-viewing applications (browsers), individual settings should be possible (e.g. for anonymizing proxies). Overall, I think that a too tight desktop-coupling should be avoided. You will have only disadvantages when the "right" desktop-environment is not used. E.g. when you do not use Gnome, you will be punished everytime when gnome-settions-daemon is executed as it misconfigures your keyboard settings ([2]). Or, opening the new, gnomeish 'save-as' dialog in firefox needs now 5-10 seconds; the plain old appeared immediatly. Enrico Footnotes: [1] http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/colors-broken.png https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103521 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117221
