`open-menu-symbolic` should be three lines or three dots instead of a gear
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Description
### What Happened?
The gear for `open-menu-symbolic` (also used as `application-menu-symbolic`) is misleading, as it express settings instead of an actions menu.
For example for Flatseal, on Gnome, the menu icon looks like this:
when in Elementary, it looks like that:
This page describes why Gnome changed from using a gear icon to the three lines icon: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives(2f)GnomeGoals(2f)GearIcons.html. I think Elementary should apply the same logic.
Other Desktop environments use a three dots icon. `view-more-symbolic` () could also be used as `open-menu-symbolic`.
### Steps to Reproduce
Launch a GTK app using `open-menu-symbolic` icon, like Flatseal, ~Warehouse~ or Main Menu.
### Expected Behavior
The `open-menu-symbolic` icon should express that it contains actions, not settings. To this effect, an "hamburger" style icon would be better than a "gear" one.
### OS Version
8.x (Circe)
### OS Architecture
amd64
### Session Type
Classic Session (X11, This is the default)
### Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
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