Cinnamenu@json: Visual contrast problem with the "Recent" category symbol (almost invisible)

[SebastJava]

 * Cinnamenu version 4.15.3 (2022-02-28 02:43:41)
 * Cinnamon version 5.2.7
 * Distribution: LinuxMint Cinnamon 20.3

@fredcw

Issue The "Recent" category symbol is almost invisible. That is the only icon/symbol causing trouble. Check my screenshot.

Steps to reproduce:

In cinnamon-settings themes, choose:

• Icons: Mint-Y-(color)
• Controls: Mint-Y-(color)
• Desktop: Mint-Y-Dark-(color)

Expected behaviour:

Everything looks good, and well contrasted.

Actual behaviour:

Everything looks good, except for just one single icon: the Recent category.

Other information

Yes, I know. I should use:

• light icon themes for light GTK themes
• dark icon themes for dark GTK themes

Well, I do use a valid combination of icons and GTK themes. Light icons and GTK themes, for most of the time. But for the Desktop, i prefer using some dark theme.

My five cents quick fix (!?)

My combination of light icons and dark desktop works fine everywhere, AFAIK, except for one single icon: the "Recent" category. I did a quick search and i guess this contrast issue could be fixed by using the folder-recent.png:

Post-scriptum

That is just a small annoyance. Otherwise your Cinnamenu looks perfect and was a welcomed replacement to the standard Mint Menu that is still currently plagued by this «equalizer» bug after months of desperately waiting for a fix. They should just take your menu and make it the standard one, IMHO. This Cinnamenu is just better. Thanks.

[fredcw]

It's hard to know what to do about this. The problem is even worst with many other light icon themes with even the "quit" & "logout" buttons being difficult to see on a dark background. I don't think using folder-recent instead of document-open-recent would fix it because this icon is also dark in some themes (e.g. Breeze) and fewer themes have this icon (most notably Adwaita) meaning no icon at all appears.

Some apps have a dark mode (e.g. Celluloid, Hypnotix, Xviewer, Pix) but it seems they get around this problem by only using symbolic icons (symbolic icons are designed to change their color according to the background unlike fullcolor icons)

The problem is that icon theme designers want to create a symbolic icon look in apps that request fullcolor icons and therefore use monochrome fullcolor icons as a substitute. Really, a better linux wide solution should be been found but I don't know what that would be.

Thanks for the kind words btw.