"Network connected" icon looks like a punk with a mullet wearing a hat
Bug #1030403 reported by
Mechanical snail
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Plasma-widget-networkmanagement |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| oxygen-icons |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| oxygen-icons (Ubuntu) |
Opinion
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This is about the tray icon that is shown when the wired network is connected (screenshot attached) under the Oxygen icon theme (KDE default).
It's supposed to be a picture of an RJ-45 ethernet connector being plugged in, which makes sense. However, it looks more like a punk with a mullet wearing a hat.
The cause of the issue is that as drawn, the cable is drawn being plugged in *upside-down*, with the grooves (containing the contacts) on top. Besides being wrong, it leaves space on top in the shape of a hat.
While I have nothing against mullets, the icon should be re-drawn to avoid user confusion.
Revision history for this message
| Mechanical snail (replicator-snail) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in oxygen-icons (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Opinion |
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Hmm, I see your point about it being upside down; although I think as an abstract recognisable representation of a cable in an RJ45 socket it does fairly well; if it was turned the other way up it would be hard to represent the socket without being obscured by the cable, and making the top bit level would make the socket rather boring and square.
Anyway, that is NOT a punk with a mullet wearing a hat. That's a guy with big sideburns wearing a knitted hat.
I suggest if you can do a better job of drawing the icon then you submit it upstream at kde.org; otherwise it's just an opinion!
Dave