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

[Egmont Koblinger]

... although...

g't-s help pages contain the sentence "The default profile is marked
with a check mark symbol."  So changing to a star would need a string
change, translation work etc.

Maybe it's simpler & safer to stay with some other tick-like symbol,
like object-select-symbolic.

e.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Forwarded upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/issues/8126
>
> I'm not a big fan of g-t shipping its own artwork.  I wouldn't go into
> the refactoring to use a Unicode character either, it's just not worth
> it :)
>
> starred-symbolic sounds great to me.
>
> e.
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > "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