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Sam B.
Asked: 2019-04-11 08:52:37 +0800 CST

Is this app Icon Browser Safe/Legit?

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I just noticed this app in my ubuntu applications called Icon Browser.

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I want to know if it's legit part of Ubuntu or could it be malware using it to disguise itself of other code.

In other words if it is a part of normal ubuntu package and if not how I can remove it.

Additional Info

Here's the output of searching for the app in apt

$ apt list icon* --installed
Listing... Done
18.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found it! It's an application called "Yad". As this is in the repositories, it has been checked by the good people at canonical and can probably be trusted.

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  2. There is an "Icon Browser" GUI utility (gtk3-icon-browser) comes from the gtk-3-examples package. If you have the same thing, then it should be fine.

    To check it, first run the following command to find out whether gtk-3-examples is installed:

    apt policy gtk-3-examples

    If it's installed, run 

    gtk3-icon-browser

    to launch the application. Associated .desktop launcher, viz. gtk3-icon-browser.desktop should be found in the /usr/share/applications/ directory.

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