changing the gnome start icon

[Jaime Davila]

Hello all,

I'm trying to change the start icon that gnome uses on the panel to pull 
up the applications main menu. On standard gnome it has a foot, on 
ubuntu it has the ubuntu logo, and I want to change it to still another 
image I found on the web.

Because I'm not using the default theme, I have no idea which icon to 
change. It's not in /usr/share/icons/Human; I changed all those icons, 
and the change still doesn't take effect, even after restarting the 
panel (I've even rebooted, just in case). I don't think it's in any 
other of the /usr/share/icons subdirectories, but I could be wrong. I 
read somewhere that icon themes I might have installed are stored in 
~/.icons. Sure enough, they are, but there's nothing else that looks 
like the ubuntu logo. If I change my theme form the one I've created to 
Human, the icon does change. But going back to my own theme brings the 
old icon back.

Anyone knows how I can figure out which image gnome is using? BTW, I did 
use gconf editor to change apps/panel/default setup/objects/menu bar, 
but the change doesn't take place.

I'm sure gnome has to be reading the location of that icon from 
somewhere. anyone knows where that somewhere is?

Thanks,

Jaime

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Jaime J. Davila
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Hampshire College
School of Cognitive Science
jdavila at hampshire dot edu
http://helios.hampshire.edu/jdavila
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