SCRIPT: Take back the Firefox & Thunderbird logo

[anatole]

thank you very much for the script, i've done the replacement earlier, but the Thunderbird icons remained the same... i've found out the my TB, for some strange reason, uses the Thunderbird icon located in /usr/share/mozilla-thunderbird/chrome/icons/default . This is also the place for those horrible looking compose / address book / contact icons. So i asked one of my friends for the original icons, renamed and resized them and voila, the ugly icons are gone if someone would like to do this, here are the icons i used.
(note: default.xpm is the Sunbird icon, for the Calendar extension.)

[aysiu]

This script is awesome. I recently installed Mepis (some I'm triple-booting XP, Mepis, and Ubuntu), and the script worked in Mepis, too (well, I answered "no" to refreshing the Gnome panel)! That's amazing.

[Dooglus]

Is what you're doing legal?

I didn't think you were allowed to redistribute the mozilla icons like you're doing.

I think they want their icons only to be used on official mozilla binaries, so they can control the quality of the products which use their icons.

I'm not a lawyer, but this seems wrong to me.

[dgold]

Is what you're doing legal?

I didn't think you were allowed to redistribute the mozilla icons like you're doing.

I think they want their icons only to be used on official mozilla binaries, so they can control the quality of the products which use their icons.

The restriction by the mozilla foundation is on the packaging of the icons with the program files. Distros routinely patch progs pre-release, especially debian-based ones like ubuntu. mozilla foundation want to protect their 'purity' so refuse to allow the icons usage in those circumstances.

I'm not a lawyer, but this seems wrong to me.

IAAL , but i'm not making this comment as anything other than a user. ISTM that the use of the logo in the script is like ricers who put back on the car-makers logo after the customization. The car is no longer truly a renault or fiat, but renault and fiat can't stop you using the logo. <2c>

[groovywombat]

awesome

[kananga]

Thanks for the script. Works great. Does anyone know why they used those other icons for Firefox and Thunderbird?

[edurm]

It DID NOT work here, Firefox 1.07 here, I got it from apt-get upgrade,

I think F.F. 1.07 is in another folder. any help ?

[aysiu]

It DID NOT work here, Firefox 1.07 here, I got it from apt-get upgrade,

I think F.F. 1.07 is in another folder. any help ?

I'm also using Firefox 1.0.7, and it worked just fine for me. Did it appear to work, or were there error messages?

[edurm]

I'm also using Firefox 1.0.7, and it worked just fine for me. Did it appear to work, or were there error messages?

just nothing happens


I don't have the /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox directory, I don't know Why ?


I installed the 5.04 from the DVD and I came with Fire fox 1.02

than I made two commands; apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and F.F. 1.07 was installed



By the F.F. shortcut can I track the FF executable like in windows ?

[aysiu]

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I don't have the /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox directory, I don't know Why ?

Is that referenced in the script?

I installed the 5.04 from the DVD and I came with Fire fox 1.02

than I made two commands; apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and F.F. 1.07 was installed

Did you run the script before or after the upgrade?

By the F.F. shortcut can I track the FF executable like in windows ?

No. The command to execute Firefox is just firefox or mozilla-firefox. It doesn't need the path to the executable. Likely, it lives in /usr/bin, though.