Symbolic links removed in GTK (the official stock adwaita-icon-theme) in favor of GNOME-only-only

[JotaRandom]

Although adwaita-icon-theme is still a dependency on libgtk, it no longer supports applications outside of GNOME. Some of the symbolic icons it provided were simply removed, leading to regressions in many projects who relied on them.

Snes9x-gtk the front end in GTK for Snes9x actually use a few of those icons.

To replace the Adwaita symbolic icons a new XApp project was started called XSI (XApp Symbolic Icons): https://github.com/xapp-project/xapp-symbolic-icons.
This project provides a tool to inspect the icons usage and point those removed.

$ xsi-replace-adwaita-symbolic gtk/src

=== Exact matches (can be fixed) ===

=== Context matches (manual review) ===
gtk/src/gtk_preferences.cpp:87: entry->set_icon_from_icon_name("edit-clear", Gtk::ENTRY_ICON_SECONDARY);  → xsi-edit-clear-symbolic  (context)
gtk/src/snes9x.ui:4077: <property name="icon_name">video-display</property>  → xsi-video-display-symbolic  (context)
gtk/src/snes9x.ui:4490: <property name="icon_name">audio-x-generic</property>  → xsi-audio-x-generic-symbolic  (context)
gtk/src/snes9x.ui:4948: <property name="icon_name">utilities-terminal</property>  → xsi-utilities-terminal-symbolic  (context)
gtk/src/snes9x.ui:5379: <property name="icon_name">folder</property>  → xsi-folder-symbolic  (context)
gtk/src/snes9x.ui:6702: <property name="icon_name">input-gaming</property>  → xsi-input-gaming-symbolic  (context)
gtk/src/snes9x.ui:9054: <property name="icon_name">input-keyboard</property>  → xsi-input-keyboard-symbolic  (context)

Scan complete — 0 exact matches, 7 contextual matches found.

Now this open the question, actually many questions:

• We gonna move and use the XSI symbolic links or are we gonna ship our own icons or just "broken is fine"?
• Are we gonna ship to GTK 4 soon or after/before GTK 3 support ended or are we GTK 4 ready already?
  (by the way Arch Linux dropped GTK2 from the official repos just a few weeks ago)
• Any other idea?

[bearoso]

These icon names aren't Gnome or Gtk-specific and they're not the symbolic versions. KDE/Plasma themes also provide icons by these names. If Gnome wants to remote the icons from its own theme, force the theme to Adwaita, and purposely remove fallback support then it's strictly a Gnome bug.

At the moment, the way forward is Qt rather than Gtk 4.

[JotaRandom]

and purposely remove fallback support then it's strictly a Gnome bug

Well for the GNOME folks is a feature not a bug.

then the way forward is QT6 gotcha, I gonna wait for the translatable stringks then for start translating these too.

Should we close this as "[Solved] Snes9x will move from GTK to QT"?