My Journey to Becoming a Linux End User on Linux Mint

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@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

One gripe I have with a lot of Linux software, and open source stuff in general, is the icons they use for things. I've been playing with x2go and the icon is a fur ball with a seal face. Now granted, a large company probably would be using something else like NoMachine Enterprise or something, but I think if anyone was seriously looking for replacement software, that might turn some people off.

Now I know you can change it, and it's not really a problem, just something that I've noticed.

The icon for X2Go is a speeding X. No idea why you have that fur ball thing. I have the X logo on both Windows and Linux desktops.

Here is X2Go on Linux...

Ah ic, that's the default icon for the agent. But there are quite a few others with strange icons.

[dafyre]

@johnhooks That could also be theme related.

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@dafyre said:

@johnhooks That could also be theme related.

It's the same on two different icon packs. If you look at the connection settings there is a default image for the connection. It's that seal or whatever it is ha.

Plus the moving X leaves a little to be desired. It would probably be a lot better if it were an svg instead of a small png.

[scottalanmiller]

This is a Windows icon pack messing with it?

[Dashrender]

@scottalanmiller said:

I have to say, now that I am getting used to the Linux Skype client, it is quite a bit nicer than the Windows one.

can you show screen shot differences why one is better than the other?

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@scottalanmiller said:

This is a Windows icon pack messing with it?

No this is all in Linux. I was saying I tried it with two different icon packs and it was still the same.

[scottalanmiller]

Here is the one on Linux Mint...

[scottalanmiller]

And here it is on Windows, just updated minutes ago...

[scottalanmiller]

The Linux one is far more compact and useful, way easier to organize and track what is going on. Both are fine, not a big deal. But one is clearly more designed around use and the other around screenshots. Lots of graphics and open space rather than focusing on actually doing what is needed.

[Dashrender]

Awww.. you aren't disconnecting them. Yeah I won't use Skype like that either. I break it into the two windows, one for the list of users, and another for hte chat windows.

[scottalanmiller]

@johnhooks said:

No this is all in Linux. I was saying I tried it with two different icon packs and it was still the same.

Oh, I see. Well if you are switching icon packs you'd not be using the ones that the package, right? What distro is that? On Linux Mint it certainly has only the right icon. That fur seal thing does not show up ever.

[scottalanmiller]

@Dashrender said:

Awww.. you aren't disconnecting them. Yeah I won't use Skype like that either. I break it into the two windows, one for the list of users, and another for hte chat windows.

How do you do that? I see how to make it one window per conversation but not two total.

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@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

No this is all in Linux. I was saying I tried it with two different icon packs and it was still the same.

Oh, I see. Well if you are switching icon packs you'd not be using the ones that the package, right? What distro is that? On Linux Mint it certainly has only the right icon. That fur seal thing does not show up ever.

it's Fedora 22. The what shows up when you have an open connection? That's the default connection icon.

[scottalanmiller]

If that's the default icon, what is the X2Go icon for?

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@scottalanmiller said:

If that's the default icon, what is the X2Go icon for?

The x2go manager app.

[scottalanmiller]

@johnhooks said:

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Oh, wait, ONLY for an existing, open connection?

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@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

![0_1448393232682_icon.png

Oh, wait, ONLY for an existing, open connection?

Yes. Did imgur break again?

[scottalanmiller]

No, but you had an extra [ in your filename right in the middle.

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@scottalanmiller said:

No, but you had an extra [ in your filename right in the middle.

I uploaded it and it didn't work so I backspaced everything, but must have missed that one.

[scottalanmiller]

I see, it is a SESSION icon, not a desktop icon. What's the complaint then? It is an icon meant to help you identify individual sessions and not X2Go. That's a singular case of something different than we would normally be talking about with icon sets since it is a different thing and the purpose of it is for you to have unique identification for each session to help you find what you need quickly. They make it super apparent that you are supposed to change it to something that you can identify.

I think that that is a far stretch from "open source projects have weird icons." This is a unique case and it is what it is for an important reason and it isn't a desktop icon but a running app icon for the toolbar.