Gnome: Change The Menu Bar Logo

[mbf]

Hello everybody.

I am posting because I have been trying to change (with a custom icon) the Fedora logo on the left side of the Gnome Menu Bar you have when you use Bluecurve.

My problem is that I went to /usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/apps/nxn/the-name-of-the-icon.png and I saw it was a link, so I directed myself to the origin, that is /usr/share/icons/hicolor/nxn/..., and found the .pngs I was looking for. I then made a .bak file of those I wanted to change, and created new .pngs with the very same name of those I had just backed up. I went back to /usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/apps/nxn/ and I saw all of the icons of the old files (links) change into the new. I was very happy...

...But! But when I saw the Menu Bar, it still carried the old Fedora Logo! All the other icons had changed, not this. If I click on the Panel to add anything, the window with all the applets listed appears, and where you have Gnome Menu and Menu Bar, THE ICONS ARE THE NEW ONES. When I click on the "Places" tab, MY ICON is the one beside "About Fedora"... Even on the splash screen, after logging in, my icon appears when the "panel" is loading. I just can not make it on the Menu Bar.

I have even searched ".png" in "Filesystem". Now I know that there are more than 21000 .pngs in my computer, but the old Fedora logos that come out are all .baks, that is to say those I had found and backed up...
If anyone can help, I will really appreciate (and if this thing happens for a reason and someone actually knows why, please explain me).

Thank you.
MBF

[r1348]

The icon you're looking for is this:

/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/24x24/apps/gnome-main-menu.png

Are you sure you actually changed it?

[jkhg]

This reminds me of something I've been wondering...

I'm using FC4, and don't have any desire to upgrade for a while (I just got it working reasonably well!). I do kinda like that new Fedora logo, though, and I wonder if the FC5 version of the Gnome icon mentioned in this thread ican be downloaded on its own. I've done some searching, and haven't found anything yet, but I'll bet it's available somewhere. Does anybody know?

[jvroig]

Maybe a friend of yours with FC5 installed can simply send you the PNG file(s). Aside from that, perhaps you can try from gnome-look.org, get a theme set using the icon you want, and get the PNG from there (I doubt you can find something exactly like that there though).

[jkhg]

Originally Posted by jrroig

Maybe a friend of yours with FC5 installed can simply send you the PNG file(s).

I'm the only person I knwo who runs Fedora!

I did locate the icon, in the fedora-logos... rpm for FC5. I extracted it using Archive Manager. It was named differently, and it was in the 'hicolor' tree instead of 'bluecurve' -- guess they changed that in FC5. I changed it to 'icon-panel-menu.png' -- 'gnome-main-menu.png' is actually a symbolic link to this file.

I found that I had to change all the different sizes before it would work correctly -- just changing 24x24 did not work. This might be mbf's problem. The icon on the menu did not change until I changed every size of it to the new version.