"Restart application" icon in Drkonqi is not idiomatic on Ubuntu

Bug #488460 reported by Ian Turner
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human-icon-theme (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Please see screenshot here. Observe the "Restart Application" icon.
https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=38582

This is what it looks like on a standard KDE install:
https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=38579

The problem seems to be that KDE uses the freedesktop.org standard icon name "system-reboot" for the restart application button, but on Ubuntu and Gnome a different name is used. Ubuntu should probably change to reflect the standard, or at least provide a symlink.

I originally filed this bug against KDE, and you may want to view the conversation here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203377

Dario Andres provided a succinct description fo the problem thus:
The "system-reboot" icon is a standard one:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
"The icon used for the “Reboot” item in the desktop's panel application. "

However, it seems that the Gnome and Ubuntu icon themes do not contain it:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=system-reboot&mode=filename&suite=karmic&arch=any

They implement their reboot icon with a different name:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=reboot.png&mode=filename&suite=karmic&arch=any

So this seems to be a Gnome/Ubuntu related issue, about not honoring the
freedesktop.org standard icon naming scheme.......

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: kdebase-runtime 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~jaunty1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdebase-runtime
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

Revision history for this message
Ian Turner (vectro) wrote :
Dave Stirton (dwstirton)
affects: ubuntu → kdebase-runtime (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

This is a problem with the human icon theme not being xdg-compliant.

affects: kdebase-runtime (Ubuntu) → human-icon-theme (Ubuntu)
Changed in human-icon-theme (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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