Re: No regular adwaita action icons in default Gnome

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Hi Sven and Christina,

On Wed, 2026-01-07 at 10:24 +0100, Sven Geuer wrote:
> On Wed, 2026-01-07 at 08:01 +0100, Adam Schmalhofer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2026-01-06 at 19:51 +0100, Sven Geuer wrote:
> > > 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/documen=
t-save.svg (does
> > > > not
> > > > exist)
> > > >=20
> > > > But this exist
> > > > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/symbolic/actions/=
document-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?

> 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.
>=20
> With that said, I can't see a good solution to the issue.

I agree that backintime should not depend on a gnome-specific package.
Having a virtual package would fix that. Adding the virtual package to
the other (including KDE) freedesktop compliant icon themes are changes to
less than 26 packages[1].

I would be willing to send a plan to the different desktop mailing
list. After time for discussions, I could follow it with bug reports
including patches to the different icon themes (and later backintime).

> > Isn't having incomplete dependencies a bug?

As nobody has commented on this: does anybody disagree? I know we
(Debian) didn't care about it for a long time, but it is never too late
to fix bugs. While DE's traditionally included freedesktop-icon-themes
stand-alone window manager's haven't. And now, Gnome has joined the latter
group in this regard.

Regards,
Adaschma


[1] apt-file search -x 'actions/document-save.(svg|png)' | cut -d: -f1 | so=
rt -u | wc -l

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