Simon, Thank you for taking the time to consider this report. However with resepect I believe that you are thinking about this problem in the wrong way.
I count at least 2 dozen icon themes in synaptic. That would render "fix it upstream" a Herculean task, even if we could guarantee that it would stay fixed once the task was complete (which obviously we cannot). FYI, your suggestion of putting the icon in /usr/share/icons/hicolor does not work. /usr[/local]/share/pixmaps is a well-known location that is searched for default icons. That's why I suggested it. :) You may notice that several of your applications have also installed icons there. Your concern about icon sizes is addressed by using an svg file. The file I suggested above is from the elementary-icon-theme package, which consists entirely of svg files, FWIW. Your suggestion of choosing more standard icon names may be a good one, although I am not familiar enough with what the "standard icon names" are to be able to comment about it. If someone chose to undertake a project to look at what names were included in all of the icon themes and restrict the set of icons used for our menus to just those names, that would be an interesting project. However there is still no guarantee that we would stay up to date with this method. (That is, we still have no way to control what happens upstream.) More importantly I'm very concerned about your statement that "Our default icon-theme supports the icon and we ship it, to some extent this is all we can do." I think users have a very reasonable expectation that changing icon themes should not cause icons for certain things to disappear. Your statement would be slightly less disturbing if all of the icon themes which shipped by default had this icon, but that's not even true. In the sense that it is the choice of icons in the xubuntu menus that creates the problem, it IS an xubuntu-specific problem, and needs a fix that we have control over. My suggestion is simple, lightweight, and has the virtue of actually working. :) I hope that it will be seriously considered. Doug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1293305 Title: Several icon themes lack an "internet-mail" icon, causing it to go missing from the XFCE menu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exo/+bug/1293305/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
