Bug 138170

Summary:	kate and kwrite should have different icons
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	Arne Henningsen <arne.henningsen>
Component:	Icons	Assignee:	visual-design
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kainz.a, leetolson, psychonaut, thomas.pfeiffer
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	kwrite and kate about dialog kwrite and kate tasks kate and kwrite icons in the task bar

Description Arne Henningsen 2006-11-30 16:26:20 UTC

Version:           2.5.5 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I would like to have different icons for kate and kwrite. When I have opened both kate and kwrite and want switch to one of these, I cannot see in the Taskbar which is kate and which is kwrite. Furthermore, I cannot distinguish kate from kwrite in the Quick Launcher applet. 

Thank you for these two great apps (and for all other great KDE stuff of course)
Arne

Comment 1 Shriramana Sharma 2007-04-14 17:17:35 UTC

In Oxygen which is due for KDE 4, there are two different icons for Kate and KWrite. However, I have requested that the Kate Oxygen icon have some syntax highlighted colourful text in the paper shown so I'll take this opportunity to put that wish in the bug database.

Comment 2 Sebastian Pipping 2007-08-30 23:50:35 UTC

I agree distinction would be a plus here. How about two different color shades of the currently white page behind the pen? That would offer both distinction and similarity.

Comment 3 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2007-12-06 20:32:29 UTC

Hi Arne!

In oxygen/KDE 4 kate and kwrite do have different icons, but admittedly, those are *very* similar.

Anyway, reassigning to artwork.

Comment 4 Lee Olson 2009-05-23 11:29:31 UTC

Created attachment 33937 [details]
kwrite and kate about dialog

Comment 5 Lee Olson 2009-05-23 11:31:09 UTC

Created attachment 33938 [details]
kwrite and kate tasks

Comment 6 Lee Olson 2009-05-23 11:33:58 UTC

Looks like this has been resolved. Attached are a couple screenshots showing the differing icons.

Comment 7 Arne Henningsen 2009-05-27 20:21:30 UTC

Indeed, the icons are no longer the same. However, the icons in the task bar are still rather similar so that it is still not very easy to see which icon belongs to krite and which icon belongs to kate. Interestingly, the small icons for the task bar are more similar on my computer (Kubuntu 8.10, KDE 4.2.2, Oxygen) than the icons on Lee's computer (see attachment), although the large icons in the "about" dialogs are the same on my and on Lee's computer.

Comment 8 Arne Henningsen 2009-05-27 20:23:24 UTC

Created attachment 34054 [details]
kate and kwrite icons in the task bar

Comment 9 Tristan Miller 2016-08-17 13:06:07 UTC

In the Breeze icon theme, which is now the default for KDE 5, the Kate and KWrite icons are once again exactly the same. :(