424944 - Use stock gtk "search" icon in the web search field

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[David Prieto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008031317 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008031317 Firefox/3.0b4

Right now FF3 uses its own search icon in the web search field:

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/1905/pantallazoqo5.png

Could it use the stock GTK icon for searches, instead?

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/471/pantallazo2fg5.png

That would increase integration with the GTK theme. Since other stock icons are being used all over the interface, I don't see why this should be different

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Michael Ventnor]

That search icon is only being used for "find in this page", which is the kind of context the stock icon is meant to be used for.

Comment 2

[David Prieto]

Hm, indeed. There are other alternatives for icons already present in the system, such as web-search or system-search, but basically yes you have a point.

Comment 3

[David Prieto]

Attachment: A mockup showing both icons mentioned.

Comment 4

[Ryan Hickman]

I propose the severity either be changed to enhancement or trivial. This seems to be an enhancement upon what is already present in Firefox, and therefore is not a bug nor is it urgent.

As for my opinion, I agree to the use of the icons as displayed in the mock-up.

Thanks for your report David, well worth it.

Comment 5

[Michael Monreal [:micmon]]

As mentioned, gtk-search is already used for in-page search. The system-search icon is not an option because it is not accessible via GTK stock. The web-search is only shipped with deskbar-applet, right (IIRC I did that one)?

For me this is a WONTFIX