Bug#1109086: gnome-terminal: Missing icon of the default profile

[Simon McVittie]

"user" wrote:
>Default profile icon is missing / shown as the "empty icon".

I believe this is because the emblem-default-symbolic icon is no longer 
present in the Adwaita icon theme. A workaround is to install the 
adwaita-icon-theme-legacy package.

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 at 13:36:56 +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
>The relevant part of the source code is this:
>https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/blob/3.56.2/src/terminal-prefs.cc?ref_type=tags#L490
>
>The question is: Instead of "emblem-default-symbolic", what other
>generic icon name would be better to represent the default item?

The GTK 4 port of gnome-terminal briefly used "object-select-symbolic" 
for this purpose, which seems like it could be a reasonable workaround 
for the upcoming Debian 13 stable release - I actually meant to do that 
in 3.56.2-1, but I'm juggling updates to too many GNOME packages and I 
forgot.

(The GTK 4 port of gnome-terminal now uses a Unicode check-mark instead 
of an icon, which is probably too intrusive a change for Debian 13.)

Or perhaps starred-symbolic or checkbox-checked-symbolic could be a good 
substitute? (The more I think about it, the more I like starred-symbolic 
for this purpose, actually.)

Or gnome-terminal could provide its own icon resource via the GResource 
mechanism.

     smcv