Incorrect Icon Displayed in Empathy Account Manager

[Ben Romer]

Binary package hint: empathy

In the Empathy account manager, the icon displayed for "remove account" is showing as a red "no" crossed circle, instead of a trash can as described in the online help. I'm using the default Human theme.

Screenshot attached.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 17 11:15:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
Package: empathy 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Vish (vish)]

This is not a theme bug .
The documentation is probably from upstream and hasnt been updated to use the new screenshots.

could you add a screenshot of the documentation which shows the old icon theme?

[Ben Romer (bromer)]

IMHO, the icon was wrong, not the help. That red circle is an internationally-recognized standard icon (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_sign) and doesn't mean "delete" - it would be more correct to have the recycle bin icon as described in the help. Looking at other apps, I notice that Evolution has the same (incorrect IMHO) icon used for Delete.

When I saw the icons as in the screenshot I attached, I thought my accounts were disabled, not that I could delete them by clicking on the red circle.

[Vish (vish)]

The use of the trash can in that location it totally wrong!

If the trash can is used , it means that the item can be restored from the trash later, which is not the case.
The icon used should be a list-remove icon , which shows a minus.

The wrong icon is used in the app, indicating the wrong functionality.

[Vish (vish)]

For more common delete icons see >
http://images.google.co.in/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=delete%20icon&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Which matches the icons done in the theme.

Is this bug report about the icon or the documentation ? Could you be more clearer?

[Vish (vish)]

Seems that the documentation is from upstream emapthy , and ubuntu does not provide specific documentation for this.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 452149 , so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.