bug#38864: Broken icons in GNOME shell since commit a8cda7f579

bug#38864: Broken icons in GNOME shell since commit a8cda7f579

[Mark H Weaver]

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The following commit seems to have broken the display of many icons in
GNOME Shell:

  commit a8cda7f57992e9ce9ae4a694eba54e3eab42c39b
  Author: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>
  Date:   Thu Dec 26 09:52:55 2019 -0500

  gnu: gnome: Update dependencies.
  
  * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gnome)[propagated-inputs]: Remove
  font-cantarell, font-dejavu, at-spi2-core, dbus, dconf,
  desktop-file-utils, gnome-defalt-applications, gnome-online-accounts,
  gnome-themes-standard, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gucharmap,
  hicolor-icon-theme, pinentry-gnome3, pulseaudio, shared-mime-info,
  system-config-printer, xdg-user-dirs, zenity
  Add accountservice, adwaita-icon-theme, cheese, gdm, gnome-calendar,
  gnome-characters, gnome-clocks, gnome-desktop, gnome-font-viewer,
  gnome-maps, gnome-themes-extra, gsettings-desktop-schema, mutter,
  network-manager, orca, packagekit, simplescan, upower.
  
  Signed-off-by: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>

Since that commit, on my system *all* application icons are replaced by
a generic icon, e.g. in the "dock" of favorite applications that show up
on the left side in GNOME Shell's "overview" mode, and in the top bar
application menu header.  (See attached screenshot below).  Also, the
gear icon that leads to GNOME settings from the menu on the right side
of GNOME Shell's top bar is missing.

Reverting the above commit, as well as the immediately following commit
8d8c6bffc528b60574f84620bd6c3ee9bfa1173f (gnome: Sort packages
logically), fixes the problem for me.  I'm assuming the latter commit is
harmless based on its commit log, but it has to be reverted as well to
avoid a merge conflict.

I guess the problem was caused by one of the 'propagated-inputs' that
was removed by commit a8cda7f57992e9ce9ae4a694eba54e3eab42c39b, but I
don't have time right now to find out which one.

        Mark


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bug#38864: Broken icons in GNOME shell since commit a8cda7f579

[Leo Prikler]

Hi Mark,

the culprit is probably hicolor-icon-theme.  Adding it to your user
profile should fix the icons as a temporary workaround.  Adding it back
to propagated-inputs does funnily enough not bring the icons back
immediately, but should – if I'm not mistaken, sorry for not having
tested – do so at after a reboot (perhaps restarting gdm suffices as
well).

Regards,
Leo

bug#38864: Broken icons in GNOME shell since commit a8cda7f579

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

> the culprit is probably hicolor-icon-theme.  Adding it to your user
> profile should fix the icons as a temporary workaround.

I’ve seen the same problem and found that installing hicolor-icon-theme
fixes it.  (I installed it in the system profile.)

-- 
Ricardo

bug#38864: Broken icons in GNOME shell since commit a8cda7f579

[Michael Rohleder]

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I can not reproduce this (anymore?) and I dont have hicolor-icon-theme
in any profile.

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bug#38864: Broken icons in GNOME shell since commit a8cda7f579

[Raghav Gururajan]

Hello Mark!

New patch (#38853) should fix the issue. :-)

Sorry for the mishap.

Regards,
RG.

bug#38864: Broken icons in GNOME shell since commit a8cda7f579

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org> skribis:

> New patch (#38853) should fix the issue. :-)

Heh, that happens.  I encourage you to test such changes in a VM, with:

  guix system vm gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl

Thanks,
Ludo’.

bug#38864: Broken icons in GNOME shell since commit a8cda7f579

[Raghav Gururajan]

Hello Ludo!

> Heh, that happens.  I encourage you to test such changes in a VM,
> with:
> 
>   guix system vm gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl

Thanks for the tip :-)

Regards,
RG.

bug#38864: Broken icons in GNOME shell since commit a8cda7f579

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org> writes:

> Hello Mark!
>
> New patch (#38853) should fix the issue. :-)

Closing this old bug report, as #38853 was merged a long time ago.

Maxim