Improved icon for CuteCom

[Jacajack]

Hi!

Normally CuteCom uses same icon as terminal, which causes a lot of confusion, at least in my case, because 100% of the time I click the opposite of what I want...

This is the icon I made:

Only thing that worries me is that desktop file wants to use openterm icon, which is linked to the terminal icon.

This is the content of /usr/share/applications/kde/cutecom.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=CuteCom
MimeType=
GenericName=Serial Terminal
Exec=cutecom
Icon=openterm
Path=
Type=Application
Terminal=0
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false

Does it count as a hardcoded icon? If so, what can I do with it?

[Foggalong]

What does CuteCom do?

[palob]

@Jacajack Please do a git pull to update your fork. You are still pushing your new icon inside the old directory structure.

[Jacajack]

@Foggalong, it's a serial terminal, this is how it looks:

Icon represents DB9 connector, which is used for RS232 serial communication standard.

@palob Whoops... I didn't notice that something has changed. Let me try to fix it

[palob]

Is there any app named openterm?

[Jacajack]

@palob Uh... That's exactly what I was thinking about. Google search for openterm doesn't return any useful information. Maybe it's just old/other name for CuteCom?

So, can I remove the openterm symlink, and call my icon like this?
Alright, I guess symlinks don't exist here anymore

[Foggalong]

Found this. It appears to be something to do with konsole, and our icon originally came from the faenza commit. I'd recommend appealing to the CuteCom developers to change their icon line to a name unique to their app.

[Jacajack]

@Foggalong I asked about that. To be honest, posts on that forum are 14 years old. Are you sure that they are still up to date?

[Foggalong]

@Jacajack Honestly no idea since it's a while since I dabbled with KDE. It's most probable that Konsole has long since changed it's icon line from openterm. It wouldn't be the first time that we've had to change something because we picked up an archaic icon from Faenza. However it's also inadvisable that CuteCom pick an icon name the same as that of another program, however old the latter may be.

[Jacajack]

Alright, since CuteCom now refers to cutecom icon (neundorf/CuteCom#12 and neundorf/CuteCom#11), I changed icon name to cutecom.svg.

[Foggalong]

Excellent, now we can move on to the actual icon. It all looks good to me, except the circles in the middle section aren't aligned to grid.

If you change them to the above pattern, then as you can see below it makes the icon way less blury.

[Foggalong]

You may have done this to make the circles evenly spaced within the grey inner section. In this case I'd recommend extending the inner and outer grey sections by 1px vertically.

[Jacajack]

@Foggalong, yep, that's exactly what it was for. I rescaled the background part as you advised me to do and aligned the circles. Honesty, the version you presented above (with only circles aligned) also looks good, and at first I didn't even realize that they were not centered along Y axis.