You have a point with that Richard, we accepted the patch after talking with the artwork guys who recommend it a good workaround for the menus problem they were pointed and didn't find any good argument to not apply it. It's not correct anyway as you pointed it and it has been dropped now with that upload:
hicolor-icon-theme (0.9-0ubuntu5) feisty; urgency=low . * debian/patches/01_dont_scale_22x22_apps_icons_for_hicolor.patch: - dropped Ubuntu patch, the correct way to do that is to patch gnome-panel (Ubuntu: #54713) * Sync with Debian * New upstream version We will fix that from gnome-panel that cycle (either by new upstream version if they do the changes for it or by patching it) ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: gnome-power-manager => hicolor-icon-theme Importance: Undecided => Low Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- wrong icon used in panel https://launchpad.net/bugs/54713 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs