Bug 3197

Summary:	Please make Claws Mail use the GTK+ / GNOME theme icons instead of using its own icons
Product:	Claws Mail (GTK 2)	Reporter:	nw9165-3201 <nw9165-3201>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	users
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	other
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description nw9165-3201 2014-05-30 22:37:49 UTC

Dear Claws Mail developers,

I recently got in touch with the Lubuntu Artwork Team and asked them if they could make an icon theme for Claws Mail and Sylpheed (Lubuntu is currently using Sylpheed as its default email client).

However, what they basically said was, that instead of them making an icon theme for Claws Mail and Sylpheed, Claws Mail and Sylpheed should simply use the GTK+ / GNOME theme icons, as this would be what GTK+ applications should do. That way Claws Mail and Sylpheed would adapt its icons based on the GTK+ / GNOME theme selected by the user. They were mentioning Evolution as an email client which is doing it that way.

Well, I think they have a point there.

So, could you please change Claws Mail so that it uses the GTK+ / GNOME theme icons instead of its own icons?

It would be much appreciated.

PS:

The conversation with the Lubuntu Artwork Team can be found over there:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/2014-May/007749.html

Regards

Comment 1 Paul 2014-05-31 00:03:42 UTC

This basically a duplicate of bug #3066.

One point they fail to see is that the stock GTK+ icons do not cover what we need and use in Claws Mail.

This item would have been better suited to a mailing list discussion, in my opinion. But now we're here, and just for the record...

Where Raphael Laguna says, "In fact, Sylpheed-Claws was already a fork, and then its development stopped and reborn as Claws Mail, that was another fork.", he is, in fact, wrong. Sylpheed-Claws was not a fork. Development never stopped. Claws Mail forked when we ceased working with Sylpheed and took our course.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3066 ***