GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 746257
Should prefer theme’s icons for applications list
Last modified: 2015-03-16 12:31:59 UTC
In the list of applications playing sound, the Control Center should use an icon adapted to the theme used. So, when using HighContrast, it should try to use the symbolic icon (as this one is preferred now), and fallback on the HighContrast one (if available), instead of using exclusively the hicolor one. I don’t know if symbolic icons shouldn’t be also preferred when using hicolor theme.
It uses icon names provided by the applications themselves. You can see those in the "echo list-clients | pacmd" command output. If those applications don't install the right icons, then they're not going to get picked up.
Right, so Totem needs a correction. Should I ask applications to always use the symbolic icon, or to only use it when using HighContrast theme?
(In reply to Arnaud Bonatti from comment #2) > Right, so Totem needs a correction. Why? > Should I ask applications to always use the symbolic icon, or to only use it > when using HighContrast theme? No. We're not going to be using the symbolic icon in this view. If applications want to use symbolic icons they'll export their icon names with the symbolic suffix.
> > Right, so Totem needs a correction. > > Why? Because it presents its hicolor icon even when HighContrast theme is used… so an icon that is not suitable there. Sound Recorder and Music work as expected.
Right. Closing as NOTABUG, we show the right icons if they exist.
It’s reported for Totem[1]. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746278