Icons in Place and System

[Alvin Thompson]

I think they *are* missing by accident.  If you select

System-->Preferences-->Appearance-->'Interface' tab-->Show Icons in menus

the icons come back.  The fact that only a few menu items respect this 
setting is a bug, IMO.

-Alvin


On 10/13/2009 01:24 PM, Matthew East wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas<mpt at canonical.com>  wrote:
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>> coz DS wrote on 12/10/09 17:05:
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>>> Hey all,
>>>    I am running ubuntu 9.10 right now fresh install... I noticed  no
>>> icons under System menu and a few missing from Places menu in Gnome.
>>
>> There are fewer icons in menus generally. Places and System are just two
>> examples.
>
> Shouldn't this be an all or nothing approach? I'm not attached to the
> icons myself but it does look a bit inconsistent in these menus to
> have some items without icons and other items (or submenu items) with
> icons. It makes it look, at least to me, as if the icons are missing
> by accident. Maybe it is worth discussing with upstream whether there
> is widespread agreement on the right approach, and following that.
>