[11.10 - 12.04] deja-dup missing icons for add/remove (on lubuntu) Missing dependency to gnome-icon-theme-symbolic

[Michael Basse]

deja-dup has missing icons for add/remove in the menu where you can choose what should be included/excluded

this is happening on a lubuntu system so i guess deja-dup has a missing dependency which is only a problem when not using ubuntu-desktop

this is happening on 11.10 and 12.04. 11.04 was not tested

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: deja-dup 21.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-6.12-generic 3.2.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-6-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 27 03:06:03 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: deja-dup
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-04 (22 days ago)

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

The missing dependency is gnome-icon-theme-symbolic

so deja-dup should be updates in 11.11 and 12.04 to have this dependency. Other releases are not tested by me

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

adding lubuntu-team in CC

Maybe this should be fixed in lubuntu-desktop instead of deja-dup?

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

just for the record

installing "gnome-icon-theme-symbolic" did not pull any other packages on a lubuntu-installation, so adding gnome-icon-theme-symbolic to lubuntu-meta will not end up in a big dependency-fight

[Alexander Andjelkovic (frankbooth)]

Thanks for reporting this bug Michael Basse, we'll discuss the issue and solve it asap.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

IMO, it looks like elementary-icon-theme needs a depends or a recommends of gnome-icon-theme-symbolic, until it's implemented directly in the theme.

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

its also affecting some other programs which are needing the icons but dont have a dependency for that

[Alexander Andjelkovic (frankbooth)]

True Michael, it does, and there will be even more in the future (as people start following the Gnome 3 design). Elementary Icons will include symbolic icons in their upcoming release[1], however, we're not sure if they will be ready for 12.04. Thus we will most likely have to include the gnome-icon-theme-symbolic package for 12.04.

[1]: http://elementaryos.org/journal/icons-30-begin-testing-luna

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

Alexander, thank you for the good summary of the issue

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Marking Deja Dup task as invalid, since it sounds like this is a generic problem.

[Boyuan Yang (hosiet)]

Symbolic icons are introduced by upstream for 10 years. The updated elementary-icon-theme 6.1.0-1 includes symbolic icons, which would solve this bug. As a result, I consider it to be Fix-Released.

If you have any other bug with similar symptom, please feel free to open a new bug report.