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@matebitte matebitte commented Apr 17, 2026 •
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I'm revisiting #39, but instead of a new color, I decided to completely redo the icon. There are numerous reasons for this:

  • I support the idea in Different color icon #39 of having a visual separation between this fork and the corporate one
  • The octocat graphic license does not allow the current use
  • Commit 23bf08b was incomplete: it missed icons for macOS and the weird Windows icon
  • There was another icon for Flathub anyways

Note: the base graphic is "git-branch-plus" from lucide.dev, I think a notice somewhere would be neat. Tried to figure out how to do this, but don't know shit about typescript and gave up.

Because its kind of hard to reproduce the changes made, I also created a branch with extended resources in my fork. Let me know if this is unwanted clutter or neat.

A first build attempt on macOS was successful, I haven't checked on my linux machine.

kind regards, thanks @ghedwards for kicking this off :)

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pol-rivero commented Apr 18, 2026

Thank you for the proposal. I've created #140 to consolidate all the discussions about name / logo changes. Please post your logo suggestions there. Thanks!

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Croydon commented Apr 20, 2026

If this gets accepted, at least the license file of the base icon should probably be copied into the repository somewhere.

https://lucide.dev/license

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guplem commented Apr 30, 2026

@matebitte happy to help unblock this, no TypeScript needed.

The icon git-branch-plus 4.svg is a redraw of Lucide's git-branch-plus. Lucide is ISC-licensed (git-branch-plus is not part of the Feather/MIT subset, just ISC). ISC requires the copyright + permission notice to travel with the work.

Two-step fix:

  1. Add app/static/logos/LICENSE-lucide with the full text of lucide-icons/lucide/LICENSE. Putting it at the logos/ level (rather than inside icon-logo.icon/Assets/) keeps it clear of actool when script/build-icon-assets.sh runs.
  2. Add a one-line credit to README.md under a new Acknowledgments section, e.g.:

    Application icon adapted from git-branch-plus by Lucide, ISC license.

That covers the source-repo side and is the standard pattern for vendored open-source icons. (If you ever want it in the in-app About panel too, that's a separate small change in script/licenses/update-license-dump.ts, but it's optional and not required for ISC compliance.)

Happy to push these on top of your branch if that helps.

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pol-rivero commented May 15, 2026

Reopening this PR because I will start having more free time soon, and out of all proposed names I'm currently leaning more towards "Desktop Plus", which fits very nicely with this logo.

I'm aware that "Desktop Plus" can sound a bit bland, but:

  1. It's one of the few names without problematic associations or trademark violations.
  2. Going from "GitHub Desktop Plus" to just "Desktop Plus" is a smooth mental transition.
  3. We don't need the name to be very distinctive because we are not trying to trademark it. If we were a for-profit company I suspect our needs would be very different.
  4. It allows us to reuse this logo :)

@pol-rivero pol-rivero reopened this May 15, 2026
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