Comment 3 for bug 382626

The icon is horrible anyway. It's used in other places as well (GtkFileChooser uses it the same way Nautilus does), as it's a stock gtk+ icon. If anyone can come up with a better metaphor for a generic "edit" action (good luck), I'll gladly get the icon changed in gnome-icon-theme. I would rather just see all the places using the icon, not use it, though, as there are probably better icons to use, or there could be design for a better UI to use (in the case of Nautilus/FileChooser). Something more like the hyperlinks/arrows/entry combination like Vista has would be better here I think.