There are no icons in application menus in Unity

[velardo pascal]

Ubuntu 11.10's Unity doesn't show icons in application menus, unlike in Gnome Classic.

For example, if you look at Firefox in Maverick, some menu items have icons on the left of the text. Eg Bookmarks / Bookmarks Toolbar. But in Firefox in Unity these do not appear.

Original text:

ubuntu 11.10 sous unity les programes telecharges n'ont pas d'icone dans les menue deroulant alors qu'il sont present sous la forme classique de gnome.
ex gimp,inkscape ,home banck ....

[Phil. V (philip.v)]

Could you please translate your bug report and title to English? That will enable your problem to be resolved more quickly, as most Ubuntu developers and bug triagers speak English.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Here's a screenshot from Maverick showing the icons.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

And here's a screenshot from Oneiric.

(But note that in Oneiric, Firefox's history menu does show icons for pages visited.)

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in "appmenu-gtk" package.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

[Enternix (enternix)]

You certainly have switched on the "Menu have icons"-Option in the gnome-tweak-tool?

[Enternix (enternix)]

I think, Firefox doesn't use "appmenu-gtk" for their global menu. They have their own "firefox-globalmenu"-package. In my case, there are no problems with the icons in Firefox, so long as I switched on the "Menu have icons"-Option in the gnome-tweak-tool (german firefox-screenshot attached). I personally have only problems with the icons in Inkscape, Gimp and some KDE-programs (Bug #882464: missing icons in dropdown-menus of inkscape and gimp).

[Valezan (ssuzan)]

Maybe you could try this solution (found here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/78285/icons-missing-from-launcher-system-settings-folders) which solved my similar problem:
Install “gnome-tweak-tool”, start the tool and go to “Theme”, then change the Icon setting from the dropdown menu back to the original theme ubuntu-mono-light/dark.
Regards

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.