system-users-symbolic icon has unclear visual metaphor

[Stuart Jaggers]

[Impact]

 * The system-users-symbolic icon doesn't represent users in the plural. It shows a single generic figure (head and shoulders) representing one user. This is a misleading visual metaphor, since a single head and shoulders is universally recognised as the current or logged-in user.

 * Reason to backport to Focal: the corresponding Adwaita icon shows two users. Third party apps that use the icon will expect it to represent more than one person. Failing to provide a suitable icon will have confusing results in Ubuntu.

[Test Case]

 * Install Lollypop and look at the sidebar. "Compilations" has the symbol of a single user, which is confusing. Lollypop requested an icon with multiple figures to represent multiple artists, but Ubuntu supplied something inappropriate. This issue may be duplicated whenever a third party app uses this icon.

 * Install yaru from -proposed and notice how the icon now has the same visual metaphor as Adwaita (i.e., it shows two users). The Lollypop UI makes more sense and the theme honours the app's intentions.

[Regression Potential]

 * No regression potential.

 * Tested by building Yaru from source.

[Other Info]

 * Link to the Github PR: https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/pull/2209

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package yaru-theme - 20.10.2

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yaru-theme (20.10.2) groovy; urgency=medium

  [ Carlo Lobrano ]
  * update README pictures (LP: #1887383)
  * build: deduplicate meson.build and introduce Flavours (#1884) (LP: #1887383)
  * fix Yaru project name (LP: #1887383)
  * Fix spinner typo in tweaks.scss (LP: #1887383)
  * bootstrap: libgtk-3-dev is needed for building too (#2222) (LP: #1887383)

  [ Feichtmeier ]
  * Gtk theme new changes from upstream (#2195)
  * Special case spinners in destructive, suggested action buttons (#2187)
    (LP: #1887298)
  * Make wacom overlay visible (#2198) (LP: #1887300)
  * Shell: revert insensitive fg color change (#2199)
  * Gtk3: increase menu visibility (#2232) (LP: #1887297)
  * Shell: popup and notification improvements (#2236) (LP: #1887297)

  [ github-actions[bot] ]
  * New upstream snapshot for GTK (#2084)

  [ Ԝеѕ ]
  * icons - add application/x-sharedlib alias for x-executable (#2204)
  * Use CD image icon for apple disk images (#2233)

  [ Chris Billington ]
  * Use MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX in post_install.py (#2206) (LP: #1887383)

  [ ubuntujaggers ]
  * adding second user to system-users (#2209) (LP: #1887411)
  * Adding mimetype for LMMS projects (#2249) (LP: #1887388)
  * Some missing icons for Lollypop UI (#2235) (LP: #1887419)
  * Adding new non-uniform app icon templates (#1920)
  * removing green from network-cellular-connected-symbolic (#2252) (LP:
    #1887420)
  * rounding corners on avatar-default-symbolic (#2253)

  [ R. David Dunphy ]
  * Nemo selected text highlighting and inactive pane shading (#2220)

  [ John Losito ]
  * Check for updates to GitHub Actions every weekday (#2223) (LP: #1887383)

  [ Jupiter007 ]
  * Add a solid background to microphone icons (#2200) (Closes: #2185)
    (LP: #1887389)
  * Re: Fix lock icons twisted path (#2205) (Closes: #2201) (LP: #1887393)
  * Add missing Simple-scan symbolic icons (#2244)

  [ MadsRH ]
  * Added text to img and iso icons (#2213)
  * Added mimetype for Lilypond music files (#2230) (LP: #1887388)
  * Added icon for QML mimetypes (#2226) (LP: #1887388)
  * Added mimetype icon for log files (#2229) (LP: #1887388)
  * Added more mimetype icons again (#2234) (LP: #1887388)
  * Added mimetype icon for Scala files (#2231) (LP: #1887388)

  [ Muqtadir ]
  * mimetype application-x-theme (#2243) (LP: #1887388)
  * Mimetypes application x rss+xml (#2248) (LP: #1887388)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/rules: enable building unity theme

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 02:43:50 +0200

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Stuart, or anyone else affected,

Accepted yaru-theme into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yaru-theme/20.04.8 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Stuart Jaggers (jaggers)]

I've upgraded to focal-proposed and this bug is fixed. Tested by:

a) Checking the Lollypop UI which includes this symbol;
b) Checking the Users category in Ubuntu settings app.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package yaru-theme - 20.04.8

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yaru-theme (20.04.8) focal; urgency=medium

  [ Carlo Lobrano, Chris Billington, John Losito, ubuntujaggers ]
  * updates not related to themes and icons (LP: #1887383)

  [ Feichtmeier ]
  * Fix visibility of spinner on destructbutton (LP: #1887298)
  * Make wacom overlay visible (LP: #1887300)
  * Increase Gtk3 menu and Shell popup visibility (LP: #1887297)

  [ MadsRH, Muqtadir, Wes, ubuntujaggers ]
  * Update supported mimetype icons (LP: #1887388)

  [ ubuntujaggers ]
  * Fix system-users-symbolic to represent multiple users (LP: #1887411)
  * Add missing icons for Lollypop UI (LP: #1887419)
  * Removing green from network-cellular-connected-symbolic (LP: #1887420)
  * Rounding corners on avatar-default-symbolic (#2253)

  [ R. David Dunphy ]
  * Nemo selected text highlighting and inactive pane shading (#2220)

  [ Jupiter007 ]
  * Add a solid background to microphone icons (LP: #1887389)
  * Fix system-lock-screen twisted path (LP: #1887393)
  * Add missing Simple-scan symbolic icons (#2244)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/rules: enable building unity theme (related to lp:1887383)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 03:15:44 +0200

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for yaru-theme has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.