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Isn't that gecko the Notepad++ icon?

Robert Hayes designed the icon for notepad++[1] Looks like FogCreek had explicit permission to use the icon [2]

I was surprised as well to see that, they addressed that here:

Apparently 259 days wasn't long enough to find a replacement ;)

It was never a particularly high priority, especially once we decided to release it to the community.