Hi, I've looked into this between yesterday and today.
> >> The debian-swirl icon is only present in the gnome-icon-theme. What > >> happens if the user has a different icon-theme configured? The file from the gnome theme is displayed regardless of the theme selected. I tried this with all the themes that I had installed, which were quite a bunch. > > This is a good point. It seems to me that no icon is displayed if the > > menu-icon filename doesn't exist or icon name can't be looked up in > > a theme. Actually, if the file can't be found, then the default icon is displayed. > My question was if the gnome theme was used as a fallback if the user has > another icon theme selected. Maybe the hicolor icon theme serves that purpose? Different themes have different fallbacks, so for example if I select the "start-here" icon and a theme that doesn't have it, I may get a different icon depending on how the theme was configured. However, for the case of the debian swirl, I always get the debian swirl. As I see it, there are two issues with the change as proposed: a) the swirl icon used (the 22x22 file) doesn't look very pretty against cinnamon's typical gray bar b) the change (as proposed) doesn't apply to existing installations, only for new installations. This happens because after starting the session the config for the menu will be written to: ~/.cinnamon/configs/[email protected]/0.json Finally,I'm not too convinced about changing the icon that identifies cinnamon as a DE, to the Debian swirl. The gnome theme has this special alternative behavior for the start-here icon, but that goes away if you switch to a different theme (for example, HighContrast has the classic GNOME foot). Users can already customize it as they want (same with the "Menu" text). Why should we change it to the swirl? -- Regards, Marga
