Re: No regular adwaita action icons in default Gnome

Adam Schmalhofer <[email protected]> Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:01:26 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.gtk-gnome
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On Tue, 2026-01-06 at 19:51 +0100, Sven Geuer wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>=20
> On Mon, 2026-01-05 at 20:08 +0000, [email protected]=C2=A0wrote:
> > The package "adwaita-icon-theme" [4] has no "document-save" like
> > this
> >=20
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/*/actions/document-sa=
ve.svg (does not
> > exist)
> >=20
> > But this exist
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/symbolic/actions/docu=
ment-save-
> > symbolic.svg
>=20
> The Gnome Project is to blame. See the commit message for 'Suggests
> adwaita-icon-theme-legacy' [1]. The icons you are looking for are now
> in package adwaita-icon-theme-legacy. I suggest Debian's maintainer
> of
> backintime adds adwaita-icon-theme-legacy as a Recommends: dependency
> to backintime. This would 'fix' the related backintime issue [2].

Would a better solution be, perhaps, to have a virtual package e.g.
freedesktop-icons-theme that applications can depend on? Isn't having
incomplete dependencies a bug?

Regards,
Adaschma

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