4.2 Newbie: Icons in Desktop Menu?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 11/30/04 10:41, Erik Harrison wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:18:09 -0500, Andrew Conkling <andrewski at fr.st> wrote:
> > Some time ago (probably on Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:37:57 -0700)
> > Matt Thompson <thompsma at colorado.edu> had occasion to say the following:
> > 
> > > OK, I'm a fresh newb to 4.2 have just put RC1 on my home box (thanks
> > > snowstorm for the time!), using the official RPMs on FC3.  I pretty
> > > much love everything, but I am stymied by one problem.  Namely, how do
> > > you get icons in the desktop menu?  Mine has none, and I do have "Show
> > > icons in menu" checked.
> > 
> > Matt,
> > Install a third-party app, like Rox or idesk.  Icon support in xfdesktop
> > will (possibly/probably?) be added in 4.4.
> 
> 
> He's not asking about desktop icons, he's asking about icons in the menu.
> 
> Works for me Matt. The error you're getting is a librsvg bug, but I
> don't think it actually causes the problem. File a bug at
> bugs.xfce.org.
> 
> Brian, the xfdesktop maintainer, said he'd rather bogus bugs go there
> than mentioned on the mailing lists and never tracked. So, even if it
> is a known librsvg issue, it's still the right thing to do ;-)

except for the fact that that SVG "bug" is listed in the bug tracker three
times, and marked duplicate on two of them.  i really don't know what would
be causing this missing icons problem, but i'll look into it later today.

	-brian