Thank you for your bug. That is a decision from the upstream maintainer who things there is too many icons used all over the place which clutters the interface. The change has been made for feisty. We might want to distro patch the capplet to use icons again but the dialog was somewhat nicer them, marking wishlist
** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed Target: None => ubuntu-7.04 -- Desktop Background Preferences' button icons are missing https://launchpad.net/bugs/88852 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs