A non-Midori web browser icon

Prerequisites

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Feature

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The web browser icon is the very same one that used to be Midori's.

It's weird seeing the Midori icon used for Epiphany.

The green thing around the globe doesn't really make sense with browsers that aren't Midori ("green" in Japanese).

What is the green thing supposed to be, anyway?

Describe the solution you'd like

A new web browser/Epiphany icon without the green thing. In my opinion, it should either be something generic, not specific to specific browsers, or it should be something closer to the upstream icon.

Existing work

There was a very Safari icon. In fact, it's still present in README.md. It's probably too similar to Safari.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Just keep the current icon, I guess.

Additional context

The old Safari-like icon, still visible on README.md:

The current icon:

Current upstream icon:

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The globe-with-green icon has always been what we used for our default browser, and it has never been the upstream Midori icon. Originally it was inspired by the Midori concept (green plus a claw shape), but it has transcended that since we've been using it for the elementary-patched Epiphany for the past 3+ years.

The "Safari-like" icon has never been used for the default browser, but is and always has been used to communicate a web browser (i.e. Epiphany, Firefox, Chrome, etc.); whatever the user might have set as a default.

We also want to avoid user confusion in changing the icon; if they're used to spotting that green half of the icon, removing it might be a bit jarring. However, at this point something that is visually similar would probably be easily identifiable by users with minimal confusion. The upstream icon as-is is wildly different from the elementary icon style, so would not be acceptable; we have also thought in the past that the mouse cursor on the icon is unnecessary and confusing.

My vote would be: once we get to the point of shipping an Epiphany Flatpak, use a new elementary-styled icon for it. Maybe something like the blue Earth with the compass needle (with a green tip?) could be similar enough to the existing icon and sufficiently "web browser"-y while dropping the green claw.

As a note, we do use green for "download" in the OS, but we also use purple for "network," so we're probably flexible accent color-wise.

The upstream Epiphany icon is now blue and green:

Of note, the green portion is in the top left instead of the bottom right, but I would say that it is more similar to our browser metaphor now