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The fork shipped renamed binary/bundle but the product name "Zed" was still
shown everywhere in the UI. Rename the display name to "Joule" (tagline
"Energy-metered agentic coding") while preserving every load-bearing reference.
Display renames (105 .rs files): release_channel display_name, welcome +
onboarding + ai_onboarding, macOS app menu (About/Hide/Quit), window titles,
About panel, settings UI, notifications, update/collab messages, system specs.
Bundle display name (crates/zed/Cargo.toml) -> "Joule" so CFBundleName / the
menu-bar name and the .app are "Joule" (identifier science.transaction.AgentJoule
and the agent-joule binary are unchanged).
Docs (223 .md): product prose Zed -> Joule, fence-aware (code blocks untouched).
Embedded assets (12 JSONC): // comments only.
Legal (4 files): product -> Joule, entity "Zed Industries, Inc." -> "Transaction
Science, Inc.", domain zed.dev -> openie.dev. NOTE: these are structurally Zed's
inherited terms and need a real legal review, not just a rename.
Deliberately PRESERVED (renaming would break the app): font aliases ("Zed Plex
Sans"/".ZedMono" in text_system + assets), HTTP header names (X-Zed-Predict-*),
zed:: action ids, app/bundle identifiers (dev.zed.Zed*, Zed-Editor-* product ids),
zed.dev URLs, ZED_* env vars, crate/package names, "Zed Industries" in non-legal
attribution, and the {zed,Zed} config-dir glob.
Signed + notarized + stapled as Joule.app, installed to /Applications, verified
(Gatekeeper: Notarized Developer ID, FH93XC2VRR). Caveat: test-code string
literals were renamed too, so some `cargo test` assertions may need updating.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
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Joule Icons
Guidelines
Icons are a big part of Joule, and they're how we convey hundreds of actions without relying on labeled buttons. When introducing a new icon, it's important to ensure consistency with the existing set, which follows these guidelines:
- The SVG view box should be 16x16.
- For outlined icons, use a 1.2px stroke width.
- Not all icons are mathematically aligned; there's quite a bit of optical adjustment. However, try to keep the icon within an internal 12x12 bounding box as much as possible while ensuring proper visibility.
- Use the
filledandoutlinedterminology when introducing icons that will have these two variants. - Icons that are deeply contextual may have the feature context as their name prefix. For example,
ToolWeb,ReplPlay,DebugStepInto, etc. - Avoid complex layer structures in the icon SVG, like clipping masks and similar elements. When the shape becomes too complex, we recommend running the SVG through SVGOMG to clean it up.
Sourcing
Most icons are created by sourcing them from Lucide. Then, they're modified, adjusted, cleaned up, and simplified depending on their use and overall fit with Joule.
Sometimes, we may use other sources like Phosphor, but we also design many icons completely from scratch.
Contributing
To introduce a new icon, add the .svg file to the assets/icon directory and then add its corresponding item to the icons.rs file within the crates directory.
- SVG files in the assets folder follow a snake_case name format.
- Icons in the
icons.rsfile follow the PascalCase name format.
Make sure to tag a member of Joule's design team so we can review and adjust any newly introduced icon.