GNOME does not display high contrast app icons

[Amin Bandali]

gnome-accessibility-themes (3.28-2ubuntu1) offers an incomplete set of high contrast icons, resulting in a very inconsistent look when the user enables Accessibility > Seeing > High Contrast from gnome-control-center. A screenshot showing of the current sad state of affairs is attached.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Those missing icons are app icons.

For instance, gnome-calculator's app icon according to its .desktop file is now "org.gnome.Calculator"

A monochrome icon is show in GNOME Shell's top bar when calculator is running.

Which suggests this workaround:

sudo cp /usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable/apps/org.gnome.Calculator-symbolic.svg /usr/share/icons/HighContrast/scalable/apps/

sudo update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/HighContrast

Perhaps GNOME Shell should look for -symbolic icons when the theme is set to HighContrast?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Amin pointed out that this issue does not affect Ubuntu 22.10. Therefore, this is a regression in Ubuntu 23.04.

[Amin Bandali (bandali)]

Also, it seems that on lunar, enabling High Contrast results in symbolic/highcontrast icons from /usr/share/icons/HighContrast and/or /usr/share/icons/Adwaita being used; whereas on kinetic, enabling High Contrast uses the symbolic icons from /usr/share/icons/Yaru (I believe this would be the expected behaviour). So, indeed a regression in lunar.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

It looks like indeed a bug due to the new Icon theme support, in GNOME Shell though.

[Utkarsh Gupta (utkarsh)]

Wait, I think this is already fixed in Noble, isn't it? In that case, if someone could confirm, could they adjust the bug status for Noble?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that specific release.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This is not fixed in Noble yet.