Re: No regular adwaita action icons in default Gnome

Hello Sven,
thank you very much for you helpful reply and the background 
information.

Am 06.01.2026 19:51 schrieb Sven Geuer:
> The Gnome Project is to blame. See the commit message for 'Suggests
> adwaita-icon-theme-legacy' [1].

I am not sure but also don't have a real opinion or expertise about it.
Someone could understand it that way, that the "-symbolic" suffix in the
file name is a specifier and not part of the name. When using a GUI 
library
(e.g. Qt,  Gtk) to load an icon by its name (e.g. "document-save") the 
search
algorithm should also consider symbolic versions of that icon. Just an 
idea,
not a strong opinion.

Anyway, this discussion need to be made by others in another place and 
won't
help us in the current situation.


> 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].

Na, I am not convinced of that. Recommends wouldn't help every user and 
would
blow up the system of non-GNOME users not using Adwaita. And my debian 
maintainer
is not very responsive and never discuss anything.

Wouldn't it be better to add this as a dependency to 
"task-gnome-desktop"?
Might it be OK if I open a ticket against that package?

In my opinion a end user application package should not depend on any 
icon
package. Every desktop package (install-xyz-desktop) should realize 
that.
If a user installs a desktop all free desktop specs icons should be 
available.
I also don not understand why hicolor-icon-theme package does not 
provide
any icon.

My current upstream fix is to search for "-symbolic" icons as fallback, 
too.

Regards,
Christian