Icons missing when appearance setting is "high contrast"

It looks like after switching to the HighContrast theme in Appearance, 'Adwaita' is being set as the icon theme in dconf. We think it's not Adwaita that should be used, but rather the HighContrast icon theme.

You can use the unity-tweak-tool to change the icon theme to highcontrast and notice that the situation is much better. After a reboot (and after enabling the highcontrast icon theme with unity-tweak-tool) I get almost all the icons in high contrast.

I think if we could just use the high contrast icon theme when clicking the high contrast theme in appearance, it'd be much better already.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

The /usr/share/themes/HighContrast/index.theme sets Adwaita as the default icon theme for the HighContrast theme.

Unfortunately some of the needed icons are missing. I wonder why the HighContrast icon theme is not used here by default?

Another observation: as visible in David's screenshot there are some icons missing also in the HighContrast icon theme. However, these missing icons are replaced by their Adwaita counterparts resulting in a much better experience: no missing icons in the settings app (even despite the inconsistent theme).

I believe choosing HighContrast for the icon theme is a better choice than what we currently have.

SRU proposal for Xenial.

the change or equivalent doesn't seem to be in newest Ubuntu serie but it should by SRU rules, also seems like that's an upstream problem and should be reported there?

The fix has been merged upstream, preparing new debdiffs reflecting that.

Patch for bionic.

SRU proposal for artful.

SRU proposal for xenial.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-themes-standard - 3.22.3-3ubuntu2

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gnome-themes-standard (3.22.3-3ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Use HighContrast icons for the HighContrast theme. (LP: #1644662)

 -- Dariusz Gadomski <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Feb 2018 07:49:11 +0100

Hello Bram, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-themes-standard into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-themes-standard/3.22.3-1ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-artful to verification-done-artful. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-artful. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Bram, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-themes-standard into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-themes-standard/3.18.0-2ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I have just verified this in my env earlier used to reproduce the issue.
Results:
artful - 3.22.3-1ubuntu2 - verified
xenial - 3.18.0-2ubuntu2 - verified

I also confirm I tested the new gnome-themes-standard and gnome-accessibility-themes packages from -proposed in artful and xenial and it fixes the issue with the missing icons.

xenial:
gnome-themes-standard | 3.18.0-2ubuntu2
gnome-accessibility-themes | 3.18.0-2ubuntu2

artful:
gnome-themes-standard | 3.22.3-1ubuntu2
gnome-accessibility-themes | 3.22.3-1ubuntu2

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-themes-standard - 3.22.3-1ubuntu2

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gnome-themes-standard (3.22.3-1ubuntu2) artful; urgency=medium

  * Use HighContrast icons for the HighContrast theme. (LP: #1644662)

 -- Dariusz Gadomski <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Feb 2018 07:52:35 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-themes-standard has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-themes-standard - 3.18.0-2ubuntu2

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gnome-themes-standard (3.18.0-2ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Use HighContrast icons for the HighContrast theme. (LP: #1644662)

 -- Dariusz Gadomski <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Feb 2018 07:55:43 +0100