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		random45345 on May 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please don’t theme our apps I guess a radical solution would be to require (through trademark law) to force distros to brand the apps differently (name and icon) so that bug reports end up where they belong.

anoncake on May 25, 2019 [–]

Debian used to have to do this with Firefox and Thunderbird.

sangnoir on May 27, 2019 | [–]

Firefox was branded "IceWeasel" on Debian - an unsubtle dig at Mozilla, which I found hilarious (and a little juvenile). I'm glad they resolved the issue.

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