Re: [Geary] The icon name

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hi Frederik,

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Frederik Feichtmeier 
<"frederik.feichtmeier"@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good Morning everyone,
>
> the icon name is
>
> org.gnome.Geary
>
> at the moment. Makes it pretty hard to match it in all the different 
> icon themes.

That's a recent change in 0.12.2, and it's actually by design. Using an 
icon name that matches the app id is currently considered 
best-practice, since it lets a whole bunch of disparate processes (your 
desktop shell, your notifications daemon, gnome-software, flathub, 
etc.) trivially look up the icon for any given application. Not using 
the app id previously was causing notifications for earlier version to 
show up without an icon, for example.

If you do e.g. a `ls 
{/usr,/var/lib/flatpak/exports}/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/` you'll 
probably see a number of apps that are starting to use the same 
convention.

If you want to use a custom icon for Geary, you could say create a 
custom icon theme in ~/.local/share/icons that extends your preferred 
theme, and maybe there's some other, easier way that I'm not aware of 
as well.

Cheers,
//Mike

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