Like its gtk3 predecessor, gtk4-icon-browser has various sidebar categories ostensibly meant to bring some organization to the collection of available icons.
So why is almost everything dumped in the “Other” category?
Other contains…
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view-sort-ascending -
view-sort-descending…despite “View Controls” being a whole category of its own.
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mail-forward -
mail-mark-junkand-notjunk -
mail-mark-readand-unread -
mail-message-new -
mail-reply-all -
mail-reply-senderThat’s one more mail-related icon than the actual Communication category. Communication only has:
mail-unread,mail-read,mail-replied,mail-attachment,mail-mark-important,mail-sendmail-send-receive
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network-cellular-connected -
network-vpn -
network-wired-disconnected -
network-wireless-encrypted…Again, “Communication” is a thing. It’s even worse on the Symbolic side, where ALL 31 network status icons (between carrier protocol, device state, connection health, and signal strength symbols) are in Other.
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Every single one of the battery icons
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document-revert(I guess it wouldn’t play nice with all the other
document-icons in Editing?) -
At least a dozen content type icons on each side of the Normal/Symbolic divide
Meanwhile, on my system, the actual Content Types category contains 6 Normal icons and 8 Symbolic icons.
Whither categorization?
…I could go on, but you get the point.
If one were foolishly inclined to make an attempt at reining in this madness, how/where are icons even categorized? What would be the process for submitting changes to clean this up?
Is there even a point in cleaning it up, or should we get rid of the categories? Currently, all they do is mislead you into ignoring a bunch of possible relevant icons.
(I’m also curious how the ordering of icons in each category works. It’s definitely not strictly alphabetical. They seem to come in alphabetized “chunks”.)
Why these categories?
Actually, never mind Communication, I just noticed there’s also a whole separate Network category. The Network/Communication split — along with Volume/Multimedia and Weather/Calendar, Tasks, and Alarms — makes me wonder why there are so many categories for so few icons, especially when 90% of them are actually dumped in “Other” instead.