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[Georgi Karavasilev <motorslav@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nautilus/Web (Epiphany) use the new Gnome apps theming and symbolic icons.
This kind of theming gives all the power to the GTK themes, the tricky part
is that the theme should support the new theming, otherwise the app will
look broken (like the new Nautilus). Light-themes (Ambiance/Radiance) don't
support such theming and should support it.
You could say it is a pretty safe bet that more and more Gnome apps will
start using this new theming and symbolic icons.
Regrading the symbolic icons - they are not hardcoded, if the icon theme
supports symbolic icons they will be used, otherwise the fallback is
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic.
Last, but not least marlin also uses the new theming and symbolic icons, so
it also look broken in light-themes (see the attached screenie).
My point is that dropping Nautilus just because it uses the new theming is
just wrong, because more and more apps will start using that new theming.
If there are other design issues it can be dropped.

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