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gnome-themes-extra package

[lunar] GNOME does not display high contrast app icons

Bug #2013107 reported by Amin Bandali on 2023-03-28

This bug affects 2 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Yaru Theme	Fix Released	Unknown	auto-github-ubuntu-yaru #3878
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)	Status tracked in Mantic
Lunar	Triaged	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu lunar-updates
Mantic	Triaged	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu ubuntu-23.10
gnome-themes-extra (Ubuntu)	Status tracked in Mantic
Lunar	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Mantic	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
yaru-theme (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned
Lunar	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Mantic	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

gnome-accessibility-themes (3.28-2ubuntu1) offers an incomplete set of high contrast icons, resulting in a very inconsistent look when the user enables Accessibility > Seeing > High Contrast from gnome-control-center. A screenshot showing of the current sad state of affairs is attached.

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Amin Bandali (bandali) wrote on 2023-03-28:

lunar-incomplete-high-contrast-icons.png Edit (157.6 KiB, image/png)

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote on 2023-03-28:

Those missing icons are app icons.

For instance, gnome-calculator's app icon according to its .desktop file is now "org.gnome.Calculator"

A monochrome icon is show in GNOME Shell's top bar when calculator is running.

Which suggests this workaround:

sudo cp /usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable/apps/org.gnome.Calculator-symbolic.svg /usr/share/icons/HighContrast/scalable/apps/

sudo update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/HighContrast

Perhaps GNOME Shell should look for -symbolic icons when the theme is set to HighContrast?

tags:	added: lunar
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-themes-extra (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote on 2023-03-28:

Amin pointed out that this issue does not affect Ubuntu 22.10. Therefore, this is a regression in Ubuntu 23.04.

summary:	- Incomplete set of high contrast icons + [lunar] GNOME does not display high contrast app icons
tags:	added: a11y

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Amin Bandali (bandali) wrote on 2023-03-28:

Also, it seems that on lunar, enabling High Contrast results in symbolic/highcontrast icons from /usr/share/icons/HighContrast and/or /usr/share/icons/Adwaita being used; whereas on kinetic, enabling High Contrast uses the symbolic icons from /usr/share/icons/Yaru (I believe this would be the expected behaviour). So, indeed a regression in lunar.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2023-04-03

Changed in yaru:
status:	Unknown → New

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote on 2023-04-04:

It looks like indeed a bug due to the new Icon theme support, in GNOME Shell though.

Changed in yaru-theme (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Won't Fix

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2023-04-05

Changed in yaru:
status:	New → Fix Released

Graham Inggs (ginggs) on 2023-05-04

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Lunar):
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → lunar-updates
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Mantic):
milestone:	none → ubuntu-23.10-beta