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I noticed a screenshot that included this icon in the sidebar, does anyone know what it's from? It looks cool!

Mystery Icon

Looks vaguely reminiscient of Chrome but different enough that it could be a coincidence. I've tried putting it into a google image search but without any luck.

Original source was this Ubuntu help page on unity launchers. which includes the original, larger screenshot.

For context, it's not important, I'm just curious.

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  • it better to ask the author of wiki "Vadim Peretokin"
    – JOGOOL
    May 24, 2014 at 0:43
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    Maybe it's a custom icon. Can you post the original screenshot?
    – nastys
    Jun 9, 2014 at 21:46
  • All I've got is the page linked in the question: help.ubuntu.com/community/… I know no more about it. It's a Mystery! (And yes, it could be a custom icon).
    – Andrew M
    Jun 10, 2014 at 11:16
  • I went to the website and seems that, it only works on mac so I really don't understand why the hell ubuntu featured a software that doesn't work on Linux. Anyhow, I think this question should be closed, the software doesn't work on ubuntu so this is not an ubuntu question and just because an icon looks cool doesn't that a good question, that what I think but I won't be voting your question down or anything, I just flagged it, because I think it really should be closed
    – Lynob
    Jun 11, 2014 at 21:54
  • you just wasted 50 pts bounty on something that's not important, you can open 2 more 50 pts bounty, if you encounter real problems and you need bounties, you might run out of rep and be really sorry for opening a bounty for a silly icon, and it won't work on your ubuntu anyway. just saying - cant flag it now it has a bounty, will flag it when it expires
    – Lynob
    Jun 11, 2014 at 21:57

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I can confirm that this is from GreekDDL Downloader.

I can provide some insight on what is happening as I am Greek myself and I knew the site that published that program.

So, greekddl.com used to be a very (very) popular Greek site (like ThePirateBay for Greeks) for pirating all kinds of stuff. Except from the illegal programs, movies etc. it also had almost every freeware's program new versions uploaded there. It was a very easy way to keep track of the new versions of programs.

It also had a very nice forum, the best Greek forum ever, in my opinion.

So, if I recall correctly, somebody begun reporting to Rapidshare and other file sharing sites about the pirate links available to those hosts. The corresponding hosts begun removing those links in order to avoid any copyright claims, I suppose.

Then GreekDDL hired a programmer to make a program based on JDownloader in order to download indirectly the links from the site. Basically you clicked on a button on the site and the links were added directly to your download section of the program.

Of course, the links could still be obtained from programs like Wireshark, but the reporters weren't so into tech and the reports stopped.

Eventually greekddl.com closed and became a news site that wasn't updated at all. Now it seems to be offline.

So, you won't be able to use that program but I doubt you would want to, because it was used directly for piracy.

PS: I was the one created the article you provided with your link, so the screenshot must be from my PC when greekddl was still up. Blame me for piracy :( You cannot prove anything :D Jokes aside, I was curious to see if I could still get that links through sniffing.

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  • Thanks for the very detailed answer. It's a shame its not a useful app (or even an app that still exists) as it is a cool looking icon.
    – Andrew M
    Jun 12, 2014 at 9:42
  • @AndrewM Yes, the icon is beautiful and your question inspired me to look for the answer. I acted like you but I was really able to make Google showing a good image search result (the site I posted in my answer) only after I resized the icon to the standard size. Yours was a bit less. That's why you did not find it at the first place.
    – Ruslan Gerasimov
    Jun 12, 2014 at 9:51
  • @Ruslan :) Yup, it is beautiful. Maybe the icon could be open sourced a recycled for another application? PS - thanks, your answer was faster and correct, but this answer from hakermania got the bounty for the extra details.
    – Andrew M
    Jun 12, 2014 at 13:17
  • btw this icon was the logo of the site itself.
    – hytromo
    Jun 12, 2014 at 13:58
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This is the icon of the application called GreekDDL Downloader http://www.iboostup.com/app/cz.vity.freerapid.core.mainapp

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  • I Used Google to Make him search me for what this image, but, it Seems in your link that this is a MacOS Application, AFAIK we are talking about ubuntu?
    – OverCoder
    Jun 10, 2014 at 16:01
  • @Yousef's I just answer the question, the name of the program owning this icon I delivered. Why it is at the picture - it's the different question, right?
    – Ruslan Gerasimov
    Jun 11, 2014 at 2:13

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