Bug 368820 - audio-speakers-symbolic is semantically a device icon, yet links (is identical) to a status icon
Summary: audio-speakers-symbolic is semantically a device icon, yet links (is identica...
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: Breeze
Classification: Plasma
Component: Icons (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: visual-design
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Reported: 2016-09-14 21:15 UTC by andydecleyre
Modified: 2018-01-12 13:15 UTC (History)
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Description andydecleyre 2016-09-14 21:15:58 UTC
audio-speakers-symbolic is intended to be used to indicate a *device*, but it is linked/identical to the *status* icon audio-volume-high. These should be distinct icons, especially because it's reasonable to expect multiple audio-related icons to be present in the same visual context in user software.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 andreas 2016-09-19 20:41:51 UTC
can you please ad a screenshot where it doesn't fit cause I check the adwaita-icon-theme and there it is ok to use the audio-speakers-symbolic and audio-volume-high icon.
Comment 2 andydecleyre 2016-09-19 21:05:09 UTC
@andreas, actually I can't. This came up for me as I was discussing with the developer of a mixer applet, and he is currently not using the semantically accurate icons, precisely because they are not properly distinguished in the Breeze set, which is kind of a reference/default case.

I don't even use the Breeze set myself, but this hacky shortcut is rippling out and pressing other projects to work around the decision to be ambiguous.

You can see a screenshot of the consequences at a bug report for that applet, using the Papirus set: https://github.com/Zren/plasma-applets/issues/36 .