564357 - GTK icon settings for menus are not honored until Firefox is restarted

Status: NEW

Description

[Draycen DeCator]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100506 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Minefield/3.7a5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100506 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Minefield/3.7a5pre

Gtk offers Ubuntu users the ability to designate whether or not icons should appear in the menus. As of Lucid, this option is harder to find, but it is still available. Firefox was fixed to honor these settings after bug 415810 was filed.

However, Firefox must be restarted after this setting is changed. Other applications, including Nautilus, Rhythmbox, Liferea, and the Terminal all reflect the change immediately. This can confuse users into thinking that Firefox is not honoring the settings if it is the only application that does not respect the setting right away.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox in Ubuntu
2. Open gconf-editor and disable icons in menus
3. Check the menus in Firefox
Actual Results:  
The icons are still present until Firefox restarts.

Expected Results:  
The icons should be removed instantly like other applications.

This is theme-independent and easily reproducible.

Comment 1

[Micah Gersten]

Reporter is actually confirming a Launchpad bug so I am marking this as New and blocking the original menus_have_icons bug

Comment 2

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

duplicate of bug 417283?