The window icon can't be overriden by a theme

[twisterss]

Binary package hint: ubiquity-frontend-gtk

In ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py, the window icon is set directly to the icon file in /usr/share/pixmaps:

gtk.window_set_default_icon_from_file('/usr/share/pixmaps/'
                                'ubiquity.png')

It should get the icon from the theme instead if there is one.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I looked into this. The current situation is complicated.

 * The KDE frontend properly installs 'ubiquity' icons into the icon theme. But that icon is KDE-specific.
 * The GTK frontend installs its icon to the pixmaps directory and directly references it.
 * The Mythbuntu frontend also installs its visually-distinct icon to the same place and, in dpkg terms, diverts it.

What really should be happening here is that each frontend installs namespaced icons into the theme. 'ubiquity-kde', 'ubiquity-gtk', 'ubiquity-myth' for example.

Until that is fixed, the current code is doing the best it can.

[twisterss (twisterss)]

Well, why couldn't the ubiquity-frontend-gtk package add the ubiquity-gtk icon in the icon theme and link to it? Other frontend packages can fix it later independently, and people using the GTK frontend will be able to customize the icon without forking the frontend.

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