... although... g't-s help pages contain the sentence "The default profile is marked with a check mark symbol." So changing to a star would need a string change, translation work etc.
Maybe it's simpler & safer to stay with some other tick-like symbol, like object-select-symbolic. e. On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM Egmont Koblinger <egm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Forwarded upstream: > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/issues/8126 > > I'm not a big fan of g-t shipping its own artwork. I wouldn't go into > the refactoring to use a Unicode character either, it's just not worth > it :) > > starred-symbolic sounds great to me. > > e. > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > "user" wrote: > > >Default profile icon is missing / shown as the "empty icon". > > > > I believe this is because the emblem-default-symbolic icon is no longer > > present in the Adwaita icon theme. A workaround is to install the > > adwaita-icon-theme-legacy package. > > > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 at 13:36:56 +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > > >The relevant part of the source code is this: > > >https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/blob/3.56.2/src/terminal-prefs.cc?ref_type=tags#L490 > > > > > >The question is: Instead of "emblem-default-symbolic", what other > > >generic icon name would be better to represent the default item? > > > > The GTK 4 port of gnome-terminal briefly used "object-select-symbolic" > > for this purpose, which seems like it could be a reasonable workaround > > for the upcoming Debian 13 stable release - I actually meant to do that > > in 3.56.2-1, but I'm juggling updates to too many GNOME packages and I > > forgot. > > > > (The GTK 4 port of gnome-terminal now uses a Unicode check-mark instead > > of an icon, which is probably too intrusive a change for Debian 13.) > > > > Or perhaps starred-symbolic or checkbox-checked-symbolic could be a good > > substitute? (The more I think about it, the more I like starred-symbolic > > for this purpose, actually.) > > > > Or gnome-terminal could provide its own icon resource via the GResource > > mechanism. > > > > smcv
