Change gnome-calendar dock icon to match software store icon

[Matthew Davis]

When I open the calendar app in Gnome, Ubuntu, the icon in my dock is a generic green rectangle with the number "28".
I don't like this icon.
It's too generic. Looking at this in my dock, this could be an email app with 28 unread messages, or a to-do app with 28 tasks.
Note that today is the 24th of September, not the 28th. I don't know what special meaning "28" has. It said 28 yesterday too and the day before that.

There is a different icon shown in the Ubuntu software center and the Gnome Calendar website [2].
This icon is great. It's unambiguously a calendar.

The point of this issue is to request that the "28" icon be replaced with the purple+white calendar icon for the Gnome dock.

I originally reported this in the gnome-calendar GitLab repo. [1] The developers say that this issue is caused by Ubuntu overwriting app's icons with their own theme. So I believe this is an Ubuntu issue, not really a gnome-calendar issue.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1301
[2] https://apps.gnome.org/Calendar/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: gnome-calendar 46.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-45.45-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Sep 24 12:04:34 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-09-19 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20240911)
SourcePackage: gnome-calendar
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-09-19 (5 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.apport: 2024-07-22T16:59:07

[Matthew Davis (matt-davis)]

Here's the icon I don't like:

[Matthew Davis (matt-davis)]

Here's the original icon from the developers, which I do like.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.