Xfce icons

[Andrew Conkling]

Mailing list,
I'm trying to make a theme for the icons in the Settings Manager, but
they just don't seem to be replaced.  Edscott told me that perhaps I'd
have to replace the hicolor folders, but I don't really want to do that.
 Must it be changed and can it be?

Some time ago (probably on Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:59:28 -0500)
edscott wilson garcia <edscott at xfce.org> had occasion to say the
following:

> El mié, 27-10-2004 a las 23:44, Andrew Conkling escribió:
> > Some time ago (probably on Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:00:09 -0500)
> > edscott wilson garcia <edscott at xfce.org> had occasion to say the
> > following:
> > > 
> > > Icons are themeable. You have to change the theme by means of
> > > xfce-setting-show, under the "user interface" section. To change
> > > icons in the settings manager, you might have to create symlinks
> > > in your new theme so that the old names will point to the new
> > > ones... Yes, that's a bit ugly. For mime icons (those displayed
> > > within the filemanager) this approach is nearly impossible. So to
> > > make things easier you can create a mime.xml file to your liking
> > > with the xfmime-edit program. One is provided for Rodent theme,
> > > hicolor theme and gnome theme.
> > 
> > Edscott,
> > Thanks for your reply.  I was speaking of the icons in the Settings
> > Manager specifically; sorry for not noting that.  I have already
> > changed my theme and added my themed icons in the theme folder's
> > hierarchy(mirrored from Rodent's folders), but they didn't change. 
> > Is there something I must do in addition?
> 
> It might be that the icons of the setting manager are not being read
> from the theme. In that case, you should replace the icons you want to
> replace within the $prefix/share/icons/hicolor directory.