Michael Biebl wrote: > On 23.11.2011 20:48, Justin B Rye wrote: >> These simplified icons are symbolic variations on the standard >> theme (see http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/SymbolicIcons). > > I guess you mean variations "of" the standard theme (not "on").
Compare "Variations on a Theme by Haydn". "Symbolic variations" comes from http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/SymbolicIcons, where the presence of that phrase is about as close as it gets to justifying the use of the word "symbolic" - "symbolic icons" struck me as pretty baffling without some such hint, since all icons are necessarily symbolic (in that they stand for something other than themselves). "Variations" as a countable noun is mostly used to refer to works of classical music; if readers weren't supposed to be thinking along those lines then the more normal word would be "variants", but it's too late to fix the phrasing on the fd.o wiki - and if it wasn't an immutable page then I would prefer to petition for it to be renamed "StylizedIcons". -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
