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gnome-shell package

[cosmic] app icons in GNOME Shell top bar are symbolic instead of full-color

Bug #1787401 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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Bug Description

GNOME Shell uses monochrome symbolic icons in the left side of the top bar.

The default Ubuntu session in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS overrides that to use full-color app icons instead.

In 18.10, the Ubuntu session is showing symbolic app icons there instead of full-color.

Personally, I prefer the symbolic icons there, but I think this is unintentional.

gnome-shell 3.29.90-1ubuntu2

Tags: cosmic
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
summary: - [cosmic] app icons in GNOME Shell are symbolic instead of full-color
+ [cosmic] app icons in GNOME Shell top bar are symbolic instead of full-
+ color
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Like you, I prefer the monochrome icons but do wonder if it's intentional...

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

This was fixed in 18.10. gnome-shell 3.29.90-1ubuntu2 used the Yaru theme to provide the GNOME Shell theming:
 * Remove ubuntu.css and related assets:
    - Don't install them anymore, as we rely on Yaru as our default theme.
and we restored the color icons with
https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/commit/ecdca7dbc9dc

For 19.04 it looks like we are using symbolic icons in the top bar intentionally:
https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/commit/54ff1c4b4c5

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

On the other hand, I believe the app icon in the top bar will be removed from GNOME Shell 3.32 which we'll probably be getting in Ubuntu 19.04 anyway…

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