[Bug 840659] Re: Use symbolic icons in history buttons

[Daniel Fore]

Yea, I've been wondering the same thing about back and forward buttons.
The problems (as always) comes down to third party applications. They
may have a need for the back and forward icons that is something other
than what we expect them to be used for (back and forward in the
toolbar).

My motivation for wanting them to be symbolic is that they appear on a
button and not stand alone. I'm not sure if that 100% makes sense, but I
feel like icons on buttons or in menus should be symbolic.

Well, personally my hope was to eliminate the ubuntu-mono themes for P
since we have the symbolic icons in GTK3. So that's something to
consider. It would mean a lot less to maintain for artists, packagers,
etc and would make the indicators that Ubuntu supplies more useful for
other distributions as well as making them more compatible with themes
that were previously targeted at GNOME.

Something I've been considering in Granite (an elementary toolkit that
extends GTK) is an actual navigation widget that would have the
back/forward buttons, drop downs, etc already implemented. This could be
a good way to get third party developers to jump on to this boat by
making it more convenient for them to implement our desired design.

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Title:
  Use symbolic icons in history buttons

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The latest USC now uses back and forward arrows from the theme (which
  is great!), but it would be even better if it would use symbolic
  icons. The latest version of Humanity should include both arrow icons
  in -symbolic variants.

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