elementary/icons

Emotions: Different filename "emblem-synchronized.svg" and "emblem-synchronizing-symbolic.svg"

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#1,426 opened on Jun 6, 2026

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Description

What Happened?

The names of synchronizing icons are different betwen the normal and the symbolic ones:

  • emblem-synchronized.svg
  • emblem-synchronizing-symbolic.svg

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Clone the repository
  2. Checkout at 366f1963082be26d11da2a333cb21a6c9ea6d2b1
  3. Run git ls-files "*/emblem-synch*"
  4. See the different filenames
user@elementary-stable:~/work/icons$ git ls-files "*/emblem-synch*"
emblems/24/emblem-synchronized.svg
emblems/32/emblem-synchronized.svg
emblems/48/emblem-synchronized.svg
emblems/symbolic/emblem-synchronizing-symbolic.svg
user@elementary-stable:~/work/icons$

Expected Behavior

The filename should be unified.

OS Version

Early Access

OS Architecture

amd64 (on most hardwares)

Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland, This is the default)

Software Version

Early Access or Compiled from git

Log Output

Hardware Info

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Contributor guide

Research direction
Rename the file 'emblems/symbolic/emblem synchronizing symbolic.svg' to 'emblems/symbolic/emblem synchronized symbolic.svg' to unify the naming pattern.
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Domain
design
Issue type
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1
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Under 1 hour
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Clear
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90