cannot remove gnome-panel icons completely

[samrat_mehra]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

System: karmic 9.10

I want to remove multi-colored icons from gnome-panel menu bar.
Before 9.10 they could be removed by going to appearance -> interface ->show icons in menus
and icons from buttons by "gconf -> Desktop -> Interface -> Buttons have icons"

In Ubuntu 9.10 this doesn't work. Though buttons don't have icons by default
but "half" the menu has it like "Application" & "Places" part even when I uncheck show icons in menus.

live cd, new user all have this problem.

@forum
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8211343#post8211343

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that's not a bug though, gtk has a flag to say that some icons should always be displayed and it's used in those cases

[pulp (pulp)]

So is there any possibility to turn off the menu icons in the panel menus without altering sourcecode? This was possible in former GNOME versions so thats hardly an improvement.

[samrat_mehra (samrat-mehra1985)]

FEATURE? WOW! I wonder where GNOME is GOING? Now we can;t even customize it the way we want it?

Now what do I have to recompile GNOME, GNOME-PANEL or `upgrade to Jaunty 9.04` or WHAT? ANYONE THERE?

ps:- jesus I used to loved GNOME.

[sitronen (peter-ullinger-deactivatedaccount)]

If a feature is not wanted, it becomes a bug. So, this bug affects me to...

[Shiki (shiki)]

+1 for this bug. Its REALLY annoying and it should be fixed ASAP. Don't know what those Gnome/GTK devs thinking but they're really going crazy nowadays. Beats me whats with them.. (Soon we'll have everything hard coded like ... on that OS. "The freedom of choice" huh?)

[nemp (nino-mil)]

+1 for the bug. This is NOT an improvment! I feel like gnome is following KDE steps...
Please don't make the only usable desktop environment worse!

[JP Meijers (jpm)]

Will this be fixed in 10.04?

I run Ubuntu on a few headless computers with very little RAM and booting off flash drives. Turning off icons helped immensly. 9.10 is in all aspects, except GUI, worse than 9.04. If I could, I would have still be runnig 8.04 today. But sadly one needs drivers...

Maby Lubuntu 10.04 will be my next install.

[angheloko (angheloko)]

This also affects me. I hope you can have Gnome/GTK allow users to completely disable icons.

Thanks!

[6205 (6205-reactivated-deactivatedaccount)]

#3 - gnome is going shitty shell way. what means even bigger or giant icons are on their way and even less customization. It seems like GNOME panel and/or classic menu applet are slowly "heading toward planned deprecation" if i may quote linux hater...

[plphtlm (plphtlm)]

+1 for bug - as sitronen said: this is a horrible bug, NOT a feature.

[plphtlm (plphtlm)]

OH - I forgot, its still there in 10.04... ;-(