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gnome-shell package

[lunar] GNOME does not display high contrast app icons

  1. Noble (24.04)
  2. Bug #2013107
Bug #2013107 reported by Amin Bandali
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Yaru Theme
Fix Released
Unknown
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Status tracked in Noble
Lunar
Triaged
High
Unassigned
Ubuntu lunar-updates
Mantic
Triaged
High
Unassigned
Ubuntu ubuntu-23.10
Noble
Triaged
High
Unassigned
Ubuntu ubuntu-23.10
gnome-themes-extra (Ubuntu)
Status tracked in Noble
Lunar
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Mantic
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Noble
New
Undecided
Unassigned
yaru-theme (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
Lunar
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Mantic
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
Noble
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.

Tags: a11y lunar
Revision history for this message
Amin Bandali (bandali) wrote :
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

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
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

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
Revision history for this message
Amin Bandali (bandali) wrote :

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)
Changed in yaru:
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

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)
Changed in yaru:
status: New → Fix Released
Graham Inggs (ginggs)
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
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Mantic):
milestone: ubuntu-23.10-beta → ubuntu-23.10
Revision history for this message
Utkarsh Gupta (utkarsh) wrote :

Wait, I think this is already fixed in Noble, isn't it? In that case, if someone could confirm, could they adjust the bug status for Noble?

Changed in gnome-themes-extra (Ubuntu Noble):
status: Invalid → New
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