Bug#649717: Strange wording in package description

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 23 novembre 2011 à 14:06 +0000, Justin B Rye a écrit : 

> > There are two sentences regarding the content and I don't see how they fit
> > together. And I don't understand the difference between icons and symbolic
> > icons. Icons are symbols and thus they are symbolic. Did I miss something?
> 
> Maybe it's talking about "symbolic icons" in this sense:
> 
> 	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/SymbolicIcons

Yes. Also, they are more intended for use on a dark background. For
example:
Normal:  Symbolic: 


> ...though reading that doesn't makes it much clearer to me what the
> term is intended to convey.  *All* desktop icons are necessarily 100%
> symbolic, in that they represent things, so what could it possibly
> mean to single out a particular set of icons as the symbolic ones?
> Maybe when this package description says "symbolic" it means
> "graphically simple"?

Feel free to propose another wording for the package description.


> I hope end users aren't going to be expected to learn this unfortunate
> new piece of developerese.

Of course not.

Cheers,
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