tiox
6 November 2019 05:51
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Why is this the case? Before in older iterations of MATE Menu prior to being called Advanced MATE Menu the icon could be changed.
gabdub
6 November 2019 11:25
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The menu now only uses the icon: "start-here".
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I noticed that the icon of the "Advanced Mate menu" can no longer be changed and is now set to the icon provided by the theme as "start-here".
The change was asked here as "an option":
https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-menu/issues/45
[start-here]
The problem I have is that I want to use "Numix circle" as my theme, but I don't want to have a red circle with an "n" in the panel (the left part of the image is my current setup and the right one is UM19.10 running in a VM).
Numix is a theme t…
What I ended up doing was overwriting the icon with a script. Something like this:
sudo cp $NEWICON /usr/share/icons/Numix/32/places/start-here.svg
sudo cp $NEWICON /usr/share/icons/Numix/48/places/start-here.svg
sudo cp $NEWICON /usr/share/icons/Numix/128/places/start-here.svg
sudo update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/*
echo "New start-here icon set, relogin or reboot to apply"
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tiox
9 November 2019 19:18
3
What would be even better, is to change the plugin itself. I am sure the image statement can be turned into an if/elif/else declaration if one could find exactly where the code which influences the start icon appearance is.
gabdub
9 November 2019 19:55
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That code was removed by Wimpy in this commit:
committed 02:19PM - 28 Sep 19 UTC
Instead of providing a custom image and then having to override it, we
set the i… con to always be 'start-here'. This way each theme can supply
the correct icon without having to manually change it.
And here is my issue report:
opened 01:20AM - 13 Oct 19 UTC
I noticed that the icon of the menu can no longer be changed and is now set to t… he icon provided by the theme as "start-here".
The change was asked here as an option: https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-menu/issues/45
The problem I have is that I want to use "Numix circle" as my theme, but I don't want to have a red circle with an "n" in the panel (the left part of the image is my current setup and the right one is UM19.10 running in a VM).
Numix is a theme that can be applied to many distributions. They provide a generic "start-here", a version for Arch ("start-here-arch.."), a version for KDE ("start-here-kde" and a symbolic version "start-here-symbolic".
As @vkareh suggested here:
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/ubuntu-mate-19-10-beta-testing/20262/129
GTK allows you to load icon fallbacks by removing hyphen parts: start-here-mate -> start-here -> start -> missing-image, so this should satisfy pretty much all themes.