Reclassify Icon= in .desktop files as string, not localestring

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Wed Jun 26 10:40:25 UTC 2019


On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 12:23 +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:11 PM Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > What apps?
> 
> I've shown a link that lists a couple of useful cases. E.g. "signs
> that are considered rude in some cultures" (note that e.g. GNOME's
> foot is such an icon), icons that are preferred to be mirrored in RTL
> locales (maybe the terminal's ">_" icon one day, when generic overall
> RTL support becomes available there), icons that contain text (e.g.
> "Aa" for a font ediotr).

Nobody's used that capability in 20 years.



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