software-properties and preferences-desktop-locale are interchangeable

[matthewpaulthomas]

yaru-theme-* 18.10.4, Ubuntu Cosmic

Yaru uses the “software-properties” icon for “Software & Updates Settings” (software-properties-gtk), and the “preferences-desktop-locale” icon for the “Language Support” tool (gnome-language-selector). Those names suggest that, despite one being in apps/ and the other in categories/, this is how the icons are supposed to be used.

However, because they are both (currently) apps, it’s possible for them to both be present in a launcher:

If you asked 100 people to guess which was which, the answers would be similar to tossing a coin. There is nothing more language-y about the Language Support icon, and nothing more software-ish about the Software & Updates Settings icon.

One way of making the Language Support icon more obvious would be including glyphs from different alphabets, maybe instead of the globe.

One way of making the Software & Updates Settings icon more obvious would be basing it on a combination of the Software Updater icon plus the Settings cogwheel. If so, it may be best to resolve #91 before addressing this issue.

[Adapted from yaru#861.]

[snwh]

@matthewpaulthomas this is an issue I'm aware of...there's a lot of icons in the set I'm unhappy with but are included so it has an icon.

One way of making the Language Support icon more obvious would be including glyphs from different alphabets, maybe instead of the globe.

I like this solution.

[snwh]

Fixed in c14fec4