firefox vs epiphany
Mike A. Harris
mharris at mharris.ca
Tue Dec 4 08:20:43 UTC 2007
David Zeuthen wrote:
> Here's a funny story: Ironically enough up until F8 we used the generic
> Web Browser icon on the panel on a default install. The icon looked like
> planet earth with what looked like a mouse with a cable tied around it.
> It was Bluecurve style. Fortunately mclasen fixed this for F8 such that
> the correct icon on the panel for the default browser is chosen.
>
> It's a bit funny we didn't fix this earlier; either we don't really care
> as much as we should about brand recognition.. or we're not very good at
> polishing. Something to keep in mind and learn from.
Ah, that's what happened... I always wondered about that and thought
perhaps there were trademark issues or something. I got in the habit of
hunting through /usr/share to find the firefox icon proper, and
replace the default earth icon. Didn't remember doing it in Fedora 8
though. ;)
One reason it kindof annoyed me, was I had recommended giving Fedora a
whirl to various friends over time, and some who installed it mentioned
to me they couldn't find the firefox icon. They were looking for the
standard firefox icon visually, not finding it and aborting the mission.
;o)
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