Only by violating the guidelines for which items should have icons. None of the top-level items in the System menu obviously represent applications, files, documents, people etc, so they shouldn't and don't have icons.
It is true that the "Show icons in menus" option is badly worded, but it has had that same problem ever since it was introduced years ago. -- (design decision) Icons missing from context menu , dialogue buttons , firefox bookmark favicons, system menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407621 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs