Re: No regular adwaita action icons in default Gnome

Sven Geuer <[email protected]> Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:24:40 +0100
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Hi Adam and Christian,

On Wed, 2026-01-07 at 08:01 +0100, Adam Schmalhofer wrote:
> 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-=
save.svg (does
> > > not
> > > exist)
> > >=20
> > > But this exist
> > > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/symbolic/actions/do=
cument-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].
>=20
> 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?

I am meanwhile believe that depending backintime on a Gnome-specific
package does not make much sense, given that backintime is a Qt
application probably more related to KDE.

With that said, I can't see a good solution to the issue.

Sven

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