Giving up our applications' identity? (was: Re: KDE)

[Jakob Petsovits]

On Wednesday, 16. January 2008, Tom Albers wrote:
> Op woensdag 16 januari 2008 01:33 schreef u:
> > FWIW, inside Kontact, i.e. in the icon sidebar, it makes sense to use
> > the generic internet-mail icon for the mail component.
>
> I disagree for reasons which are not to hard to think of.

I doubt that one would use two different mail applications inside Kontact at 
the same time, or at least that's such an edge case that I would happily 
ignore the differentiation between KMail and Mailody for sidebars.

Sidebars, btw, are likely to have different needs in terms of icon layout, 
which is why Kontact uses icons named view-pim-* for its sidebar, in 
particular view-pim-mail for the mail part. Personally, I would expect 
Mailody to use that icon as well when operating inside Kontact.