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How to add icons to menus in Ubuntu 13.10
By default, using Ubuntu 13.10, the user is met by an optimized set of default applications, behaviors and functionalities, defaults empowering the user in digesting a powerful solid computer experience.
Ubuntu expresses its features as tweakable, as a consequence, users are able to modify and adjust the defaults with the help of intuitive user-friendly tools, such as Ubuntu Tweak.
By default, Ubuntu disables the icons from inside menus, meaning, right-clicking on the desktop, opens the right-click menu, menu containing only text entries and no icons.
Yet, adding icons to menus in Ubuntu 13.10 is as simple as:
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install Ubuntu Tweak
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
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launch Ubuntu Tweak and navigate to
Tweaks-->Miscellaneous -
check
Menus have icons
The result: right-clicking now on the desktop, renders icons inside the menu, icon-enablement feature adopted by other right-click menus, too (like for example, the menus from inside Nautilus, Firefox, Gedit, etc).
While minor, the newly-added icons imprint more clarity and beauty into the frequently-used right-click menus, increasing their level of good looks, especially when the menus are icon-enabled under icon themes featuring monochrome icons.