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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When I originally filed a bug about the browser icon being rubbish, I 
focussed on the fact that it doesn't look good on the desktop rather 
than making a song and dance about the trademark infringement issue. I 
was hoping the design team would just push an orange round thing fairly 
promptly and the issue would go away. I actually thought that all the 
phone icons were going to be replaced with pictograms 
https://design.ubuntu.com/brand/pictograms
perhaps this one for the browser 
https://design.ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/pictogram-internet-orange-hex.svg

Anyhow, that didn't happen and we have a bunch of flat square icons for 
phone things, they don't use transparency, they have sharp corners that 
get cropped to a squircle (or Ubuntu Shape), and they look rubbish in 
the dash and switcher on the desktop. Now you might wander why it 
matters if they look completely inconsistent on the desktop when they 
are phone icons, but in theory we have convergence, and phone things 
should run on the desktop and desktop things should run on the phone, 
they are all just Ubuntu apps not "Ubuntu Touch" apps.

What is the plan here, will there be desktop icons and device icons for 
packages? Will the Unity 8 desktop just have everything with square 
icons cropped to a squircle? How does icon consistency work across form 
factors?

Alan.