How to retain native application icons?

[N. W.]

Hello,

> Rafael Laguna wrote:
> 
> My question now is, how do you plan to restore the /usr/share/icons

maybe I should have been a bit more clear about this:

Deleting the entire" /usr/share/icons" folder was merely an experiment
with a live system of Lubuntu 14.04 LTS inside a virtual machine.

So, all fine ;).

I just wanted to see what's happening when doing that ;).

> Rafael Laguna wrote:
> 
> What you suggest is impossible in Linux (with an XDG desktop
> metaphor). You want to use the original icon designs while using only
> the mimetypes of Box. Or do you want to erase the action, panel and
> other GUI features of your desktop? That's a really bad idea.
> If you dislike the Box icons design you should look for another theme
> that suits you.

I am not sure, but maybe you didn't understand what I mean.

Other icon themes, like Faenza or elementary for example, also do have
non-native application icons. So, switching to another icon theme would
not necessarily help me.

Let's take Firefox as an example again. Firefox has it's own icon, made
by (I assume) Mozilla. The Firefox logo.

When using Firefox on Microsoft Windows, Windows is always using the
native/original/offical Firefox logo as icon. Everywhere.

However, when using Firefox on Lununtu 14.04 for example, Lubuntu is
using the Firefox logo from the Box icon theme, which has been made by
you, which is not the original Firefox logo.

The same goes for the Faenza icon theme. Faenza also has a different
Firefox logo.

Another example would be Audacious. Your Audacious logo (from Lubuntu
Box icon theme) looks completely different compared to the
native/original/official Audacious logo.

Other examples would be Sylpheed or LibreOffice and so on. When using
the Box icon theme, the user is seeing logos made by you (Rafael
Laguna), and not the original/official/native logos made by the
application developers.

I do not say that your logos look bad. I just want to explain to you
what I mean.

I would like to know what I can do to make the applications show up
with their native/official/original logo instead of your logos.

Regards