The "fix" was entirely inadequate. Just three files, replacing one arbitrarily inappropriate icon with another, and not the ones that people have complained about. There are standard names for these, included within the default Ubuntu theme. Use those. If you really must use some other icon, call it the appropriate thing and then symlink to whatever icon you've pulled out of the hat. It isn't difficult. Failure to do so highlights how little you value the consistency of the user experience.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-icon-theme in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1201128 Title: missing icons for .directory files Status in “gnome-icon-theme” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “gnome-menus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Directory files have been shipped with incorrect Icon= fields. For example, ActionGames.directory contains Icon=weather-storm. This should instead read Icons=applications-action (1) which is included in many icon sets (2), leaving this kind of substitution to the theme author using symlinks. Including references to these substitutions directly in the .directory files is an inappropriate and unecessary kludge which breaks themes, including the default one. I've only checked the Games .directory files so far, since that is what I was doing when I encountered the bug, but they all exhibit this problem. I'm using Ubuntu 13.04, but it's the kind of thing that could have been sitting undone for a while. It's probably worth checking whether this bug exists upstream or whether it's been introduced by the Ubuntu team. Upon further checking, Bug #421294 is a particular case of this bug, where the line reads Icon=system-run rather than Icon=applications- puzzles. From this report and Bug #421695 it seems likely that this bug was introduced in Karmic. (1) or similar - I'm not entirely sure on whether this will shake out as applications-action or applications-games-action; Gnome currently goes one way and KDE the other but, either way, symlinks are cheap and it can be sorted out through freedesktop. (2) Ubuntu's own Humanity icon set includes icons of this form, but they are not used because of this bug. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-icon-theme/+bug/1201128/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
