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Gimp fails to load icons on startup

Description:

When GIMP is loaded, it fails to load any icon. However, if I go to Edit > Preferences > Interface > Icon Theme and change it to anything else and then back, then the original theme loads properly.

Here is a screenshot with the Default icon theme (with symbolic icons selected): gimp-missing-icons

Here is how it looks after toggling the icon theme twice in the preferences (i.e. how it should look at startup): gimp-fixed-icons

Additional info:

  • package version(s): 3.0.0-1
  • config and/or log files:
  • link to upstream bug report, if any: I initially reported it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/13151, but then closed it and reported it here since the AppImage works perfectly.
  • Compositor: Hyprland (Wayland) 0.47.2

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open GIMP
  2. Observe the missing icons
  3. In the Edit menu, click on Preferences.
  4. In the left panel with the sections, click on the Icon Theme subsection under the Interface section.
  5. Change the icon theme to something else.
  6. Observe that the icon theme has changed, and now works.
  7. Change the icon theme back to the original theme.
  8. Observe that your preferred icon theme works properly now.
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