firefox and icons...

[Enrico Scholz]

hp at redhat.com (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