I confirm this on Edgy. This setting needs to be changed under System -> Preferences -> Menus and toolbars once.
** Changed in: liferea (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Liferea doesn't initially respect Gnome toolbar button label preference https://launchpad.net/bugs/63370 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs