[sclug] Manky Firefox Icon

[Jonathan Leighton]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:49 +0100, Alex Butcher wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Peter Brewer wrote:
> 
> > SCLUGers,
> >
> > Not a terribly important problem.... but does anyone know why in Ubuntu the 
> > Firefox icon is a manky Gnome style globe rather than the proper Firefox 
> > logo?  I can change the icon in the KDE menu editor and on the taskbar but I 
> > still get it on the application title bar and in the tasklist.  Anyone know 
> > how I can change it and reach eyecandy nirvana?
> 
> You need to find the .desktop file that specifies that the Gnome 'globe'
> icon should be used. I don't use Ubuntu, so you'll have to figure the rest
> out for yourself, but /usr/share is probably a good place to start looking,
> along with querying the package database (using dpkg, presumably).

It's done because of trademark restrictions I believe. Anyway, there's a
good fix here:
http://ubuntuguide.org/index.html#restoreoriginaliconsfirefox

Regards
-- 
Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip
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