The style doesn't preserve the original branding very well and the official telegram icon is close enough to being a Breeze icon that we don't need a replacement icon.
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Could we please not remove this icon, or at least keep it available as an alternative? It fits the general style so well.
The only way to have an alternative icon is to make an alternative icon theme that uses the alternative icon as its only icon.
This is close enough to being a breeze icon that we really don't need our own version of it for now: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/dev/Telegram/Resources/art/icon512.png
If the desktop client icon changes to an incompatible style, we'll make a new breeze telegram icon.
Here's one problem from simply removing the existing Breeze theme SVG icons: the icons shipped in Telegram are raster .pngs which can scale poorly, and the circular effect seems quite badly done for the 48px version in particular. For example here's how Telegram's icon now looks in my 60px thickness panel with an IOTM:
This is Telegram's fault, of course. But it's still gonna bite our users until they fix it.