Confirming the issue. 

(In reply to Ben McMonagle from comment #0)
> Description of problem: some drakrpm GUIs are missing icons:
> 
> # drakrpm
> ~
> (drakrpm:278348): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:09:35.226: Error loading theme icon
> 'dialog-information' for stock: Icon 'dialog-information' not present in
> theme Adwaita
> 
> (drakrpm:278348): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:09:35.246: Error loading theme icon
> 'edit-find' for stock: Icon 'edit-find' not present in theme Adwaita
> 
> (drakrpm:278348): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:09:35.247: Error loading theme icon
> 'edit-clear' for stock: 

adwaita-icon-theme does have dialog-information-symbolic, edit-find-symbolic and edit-clear-all-symbolic svg icons. (The png ones have even two "symbolic"s in their names)
 
> 
> ~
> 
> # drakrpm-editmedia 
> ~
> 
> (drakrpm-editmedia:301696): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:14:24.537: Error loading
> theme icon 'go-up' for stock: Icon 'go-up' not present in theme Adwaita
> 
> (drakrpm-editmedia:301696): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:14:24.539: Error loading
> theme icon 'go-down' for stock: Icon 'go-down' not present in theme Adwaita


adwaita-icon-theme does have go-up-symbolic.svg and go-down-symbolic.svg icons.

(The png ones have an additional ".symbolic" in their names)

Assigning to the registered adwaita-icon-theme maintainer. CC'ing the mageia tools maintainers and the rpmdrake maintainer.

Source RPM: adwaita-icon-theme-42.0-1.mga9.noarch / adwaita-gtk2-theme-3.28-9.mga9.x86_64 => adwaita-icon-theme-42.0-1.mga9, rpmdrake-6.32-2.mga9
CC: (none) => mageiatools, marja11, thierry.vignaud
Summary: Adwaita theme, some drakrpm GUIs are missing icons => Adwaita theme, some drakrpm GUIs can't find some icons because they have an additional ".symbolic" in their names
Assignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa

can add:
 
$ gnome-control-settings 

missing an <- icon when using Adwaita theme also

oops,: 
$ gnome-control-centre.

or "settings" from the Gnome exit menu

IMO this is not a bug in adwaita-icon-theme, but judge by yourself.

Gnome have not used fullcolor icons in UI since a long time and uses symbolic icons instead. See https://developer.gnome.org/hig/guidelines/ui-icons.html. App icons is a different story.

Adwaita icon theme is developed for Gnome and thus 'obsolete' UI icons are dropped. It's up to app developers to make app UIs to work also with modern symbolic icons. And themes with only symbolic UI icons available.

A hackish workaround for the issue would be adding symlinks with 'legacy' names, but a real fix would be re-designing and updating our tools to use symbolic icons or labels in UI.

The reason why there's 'an extra -symbolic' in .png icon file names is because they're converted/generated from .svg with a gtk-encode-symbolic-svg tool. All generated files have the extension .symbolic.png to distinguish them from ordinary pngs.

foobar-symbolic.svg => foobar-symbolic.symbolic.png

Blame Gnome upstream about the naming conventions. Icon name "foobar-symbolic" tells it's a symbolic one. Same as if the file name ends with '-symbolic.svg', '.symbolic.png' and a couple of others.

Is this bug still valid? I wasn't able to reproduce this with mga8 -> cauldron update.

checked with a new GNOME netinstall today -ok

making as fixed

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED