Re: new: x11/xapp-symbolic-icons

Landry Breuil wrote:
> Le Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 12:23:47PM +0800, Chris Billington a écrit :
>> One of the responses to Gnome Project making the Adwaita icon themes
>> 'private' in May 2024 is an icon set used by 'Xapps applications', used
>> primarily by the Cinnamon DE/Linux Mint.
>>
>> xapp-symbolic-icons is a collection of fallback symbolic icons installed
>> under the x11/hicolor-icon-theme base directory. The icon names are prefixed
>> with 'xapp-' and a Python3 utility is provided to 'convert' source code to
>> use them.
>>
>> This port is based on xapp-symbolic-icons as a low-friction response to the
>> deprecation of the Adwaita icon themes for non- 'Gnome Core Applications'
>> [1]
>>
>> The xapp- prefix is stripped from the icon names and the Python utility
>> removed.
>>
>> With the port installed, non-Gnome-Core GTK (and other) applications using
>> symbolic action icons will use a compatible fallback icon when Adwaita or
>> other icon themes are not installed or configured on non-Gnome DE/WMs.
>>
>> Otherwise, there is a fair chance some icons will be missing. You could say
>> it aims at 'sane defaults'.
>>
>> This port complements the x11/adwaita-xfce-icon-theme I proposed to the list
>> recently. Tweaked version also attached- adds some xfce-specific symbolic
>> icons, allows selection in Xfce 'Appearance' GUI, and requires configuring
>> 'adwaita-xfce' as the active theme in other environments.
> 
> thanks for this submission, i have to admit i dont really see what
> xapp-symbolic-icons fixes in my usecases, but the adwaita-xfce theme
> works fine on xfce here. i'm more used to elementary-xfce anyway.
> 
>> Advice please: since the port is only 'based on' xapp-symbolic-icons, would
>> a better PKGNAME be something like 'hicolor-symbolic-icons-extra'?
> 
> i dont have a strong opinion on that, but given that this is the github
> project name, xapp-symbolic-icons seems fine. i've seen that at least it
> doesnt conflict with hicolor icons..
> 
> so, if another developer could ok the submission i'd import them, or
> they can be imported with my ok.
> 
The two ports are slightly different in purpose.

adwaita-xfce-icon-theme adds some xfce-specific icons and makes the 
Adwaita icon theme selectable again in GUI apps of Xfce and other 
desktop environments. It's a response to Gnome deprecating the use of 
Adwaita for applications, while ignoring the existing usage. It could be 
included in meta/xfce.

xapp-symbolic-icons provides fallback symbolic icons (under hicolor) for 
Gnome-ish apps that will appear if a user's selected icon theme does not 
include them. Gnome seems to like scalable/action symbolic icons, and 
coverage of these can be patchy in non-Adwaita icon themes. Though 
Breeze and Breeze Dark are quite complete, they don't include all those 
that are in Adwaita, for example. They are mostly absent in the 'Xfce 
default' icon theme Rodent (based on Tango) which xfce4-icon-theme installs.

Both are minimal in size because the contents are all scalable .svg

If you are OK to import them, it would help improve the default 
experience for people who use the 'Gnome' applications outside Gnome. In 
any case, I understand there are difficulties in continuing Gnome 
support on OpenBSD after Gnome 49 due to hard-depending on systemd.

Chris