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devel-docs: update the icons doc with some of Mitch explanations. 

This explains a little better why some systems (i.e. GNOME…) would show
no icons in menus whereas other (i.e. Linux Mint, Windows…) would show
them. GIMP_ICONS_LIKE_A_BOSS environment variable is a developer trick
to show icons in menus anyway to see how things render on such systems.
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@ -104,9 +104,10 @@ Some known sizes:
Testing icons
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Icons in menus are not always shown. In particular some desktop environments
would not show them by default, for instance GNOME. You can force them to
show up by setting the environment variable `GIMP_ICONS_LIKE_A_BOSS`.
Menu items and buttons are not supposed to have icons any longer. Yet
our actions have icons and some desktop environments would enable them
in menus and buttons regardless. To test how we do on systems which do
so, set the environment variable `GIMP_ICONS_LIKE_A_BOSS`.
For instance, start GIMP like this: