Gtk Icon Size regression in Gtk-3.10 (trusty)

[Khurshid Alam]

Gnome depreciated & removed gtk-icon-sizes settings (like gtk-menu-images, even though they patched it back later) from gtk-3.10.

Commit: (https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?h=gtk-3-10&id=e779e04bc25e701d05aed6f532eac1b2cd384912)

In gtk-3.8 it was possible to use "gtk-icon-sizes = panel-menu-bar=16,16:panel-menu=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=16,16:panel=8,8:gtk-button=16,16" in

~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

& control the icon-sizes. This regression affects quite a few bugs, for example in this bug (lp: #986969), Ubuntu specifically used to set panel menu bar icon sizes( "panel-menu-bar=24,24"), but it doesn't read gtk-icon-sizes from settings.ini any more. Moreover Ubuntu decided not to use gtk-headerbar in trusty. All Gtk2 & Gtk3 applications are using traditional toolbar & titlebar. Hence, users may still want to (should be able to) set lower value of icon-size (for example, gtk-large-toolbar=16,16) in low resolution displays.

While it may not be considered as critical bug , its a too drastic change to land on a LTS. If upstream doesn't provide a patch for it, Ubuntu should patch it. (They did lots of that in Gtk+ anyway).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. I don't think we are going to distro patch that option back though, setting the bug as wishlist