Ubuntu 14.10 menu icons not visible

[Fernando]

In Ubuntu 14.10 I don't see any icons in the menus. Is this a bug or a misconfiguration of my environment?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Likely a duplicate of
Bug #775702 “Some menu icons missing in Inkscape since upgrade to 11.04”

Bug #775702 is a conflict with Unity's global menubar. You could try and launch inkscape from the terminal with this command to disable the global menu for Inkscape and verify that the icons are still there (unless desktop-wide disabled via gtk settings for all menus):
$ UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 inkscape

[Fernando (fcuencamargalef)]

May be. But in this case, are not visible any icons in the menus, not some as in the bugs you refer.

On the other hand, the workarounds proposed in this other bugs, doesn't work for Ubuntu 14.10.

UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 inkscape

Doesn't show any menu icons either.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

GNOME/GTK+ decided to disable menu icons by default, so - as mentioned in my earlier comment - unless you changed the GTK+ setting for the menu icons to be displayed, the icons won't be there even with disabled unity menu bar.

This is not an Inkscape problem - this is an issue with configuring your desktop (and changing its default settings).

[su_v (suv-lp)]

I only have Ubuntu 14.04 in a VM right now - the attached screenshot shows how in 14.04 this setting could still be changed (e.g. via dconf-editor). Possibly it now has been removed in Ubuntu 14.10 completely, I don't know (GNOME has deprecated the old-style menu icons).

[Fernando (fcuencamargalef)]

Thanks a lot for your kinkdly response.

Yes! You are completely right its a duplicate bug, but I haven't understood very well the workaround as it is explained; my fault.

Detailed workaround:

  1.- Execute in a terminal sudo apt-get install dconf-editor
  2.- Execute in a terminal dconf-editor
  2.- Set to true with dconf-editor gnome->desktop->interface->menus-has-icons (the default is false)
  3.- Start inkscape with UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 inkscape

Be careful because there another similar configuration in another path: org->cinnamon->desktop->interface->menus-have-icons

There is no another way to do this without the need of this advanced configuration (I think this is hard for the normal user)? Because its a pity that in Ubuntu by default the majority of users don't see menu icons.

Other applications in Ubuntu 14.10 have icons in their menus without the need of changing any configuration.
For example: Mozilla rerFirefox.

At least I think a guide or note in the Inkscape web site (FAQ, Blog... I don't know) will be a good idea.

Cheers

[Yajo (yajo)]

This seems to be a very common issue after GTK deprecated Stock Items (and will be removed completely in GTK+ 4). It happens to me too in Fedora 21.

Apps using GTK should update their menus. Instructions can be found in the mailing list notice [1] and a document linked there in the first message of the list [2].

Inkscape makes a critical use of menu icons (understanding boolean operations without them is quite hard), so IMHO developers should care about fixing this.

[1] http://gtk.10911.n7.nabble.com/Stock-Items-Deprecation-td81617.html
[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KCVPoYQBqMbDP11tHPpjW6uaEHrvLUmcDPqKAppCY8o/pub

[su_v (suv-lp)]

On 2015-02-04 11:41 (+0100), Yajo wrote:
> This seems to be a very common issue after GTK deprecated Stock
> Items (and will be removed completely in GTK+ 4). It happens to me
> too in Fedora 21.

You refer to changes in GTK3 - this report however tracks a problem with Ubuntu Unity's global menu bar in current GTK2-based Inkscape.

Reports related to the experimental GTK3 build of Inkscape should be filed separately.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Linking as duplicate to bug #775702 as discussed earlier.