[Bug 840659] Re: Use symbolic icons in history buttons

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

I think we could disagree elsewhere on whether icons in menus should be
symbolic, while agreeing here on whether these Back and Forward buttons
should. They're quite different contexts. (For example, Back and Forward
menu items don't have icons at all.)

I'm all in favor of switching from manual to automatic symbolic icons,
but that doesn't seem to bear on the artistic issue here.

And a prefab Back+Forward widget would be nifty, but I don't see that
bears on this issue either. It would just be decided in a different
place.

So, here's the crux. Can you imagine any program, that would use the
standard icon theme (e.g. not kids games), for which the most
appropriate Back and Forward icons should be colored round-tipped ➜
arrows?

If not, this bug is in the Humanity icon theme. If so, though, should
Firefox be one of those programs?

If so, what distinguishes USC from Firefox? Is it just that USC's Back
and Forward button outlines are visible while Firefox's are not, so
Firefox's icons need to cover more height and width to reassure people
about the target area?

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Title:
  Use symbolic icons in history buttons

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The latest USC now uses back and forward arrows from the theme (which
  is great!), but it would be even better if it would use symbolic
  icons. The latest version of Humanity should include both arrow icons
  in -symbolic variants.

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