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It has Inherits=Adwaita in index.theme and does not have Hidden=true so that Xfce (etc) can see it. The extra icons are used by xfce, according to upstream. Debian packages it.Le Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 02:27:41PM +0800, Chris Billington a écrit :x11/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme contains the Hidden=true attribute in its index.theme file, for reasons attibutable to the upstream Gnome Project.This means that Adwaita does not appear as an 'Icon Theme' choice in non-gnome desktops such as Xfce in the Settings/Appearance dialog. Non-desktop x11 systems are also affected. On non-Gnome systems if applications use the Adwaita 'symbolic' icons (for exmaple) those icons will not appear.thanks, i have to admit i dont fully understand what it fixes since by itself it doesnt ship much icons, is that mostly because this 'overloads' adwaita and makes it selectable for the end-user ? (note: i havent made any testing at all)I am unsure whether this should be in x11/ or x11/xfce4 category. Advice please.it can go in x11/ like x11/greybird, having it in x11/xfce4 would make sense if it'd benefited from the xfce4.port.mk module or from x11/xfce4/Makefile.inc. meta/xfce can also depend on it if that makes a better 'out of the box' user experience for icon themes.. Landry
I don't know why the Gnome Project makes the base Adwaita theme (and AdwaitaLegacy too) hidden, and therefore invisible to non-Gnome desktops. I suppose we could patch that out, but would that break Gnome?
Making meta/xfce depend on it would be useful. Though there is an xfce4-icon-theme package which installs Tango and an Xfce theme called Rodent, but neither have all the symbolic icons that some applications seem to use.
Attachment has it moved to x11/adwaita-xfce-icon-theme Chris
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