I opened gallery.php in the sources directory and changed all instances of:
// MyImages
if ($g_add && !($context['user']['is_guest']))
$context['gallery']['buttons']['mylisting'] = array(
'text' => 'gallery_myimages',
'url' =>$scripturl . '?action=gallery;sa=myimages;u=' . $ID_MEMBER,
'lang' => true,
);
// Search
$context['gallery']['buttons']['search'] = array(
'text' => 'gallery_search',
'url' => $scripturl . '?action=gallery;sa=search',
'lang' => true,
);
to
// MyImages
if ($g_add && !($context['user']['is_guest']))
$context['gallery']['buttons']['mylisting'] = array(
'image' => 'myimages.gif',
'text' => 'gallery_myimages',
'url' =>$scripturl . '?action=gallery;sa=myimages;u=' . $ID_MEMBER,
'lang' => true,
);
// Search
$context['gallery']['buttons']['search'] = array(
'image' => 'search.gif',
'text' => 'gallery_search',
'url' => $scripturl . '?action=gallery;sa=search',
'lang' => true,
);
worked like a charm. the images are in the Themes/helios/images/english directory. I did change the menu search button to search2.gif because I wanted different buttons (backwards I know but I had already changed the code before i realized it and it's easier to change one code snippet in the menu)