Thanks John,
the information was quite helpful, but also quite surprising.
When choosing what icon names to use to replace stock icons, I used official
documentation, see for example comments in this file:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/gtk-3-24/gtk/deprecated/gtkstock.h
Example
Miroslav,
The basic problem is that all of those color icons were declared "legacy" by
the Gnome designers a long time ago and Adwaita-icon-theme v42 finally removed
them. As it happens that broke a Gtk test, see
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4754, so they've been added back to
I've been converting from stock icons to symbolic icons, but no luck so far.
Example code (both GTK2 and GTK3 builds are supported):
#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3,10,0)
icon = gtk_image_new_from_icon_name("edit-delete",
GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU);
#else
icon =