icon themes

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Wed Feb 23 07:45:16 CET 2005


Bob Snyder wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>> Jason Keltz wrote:
>>
>>> I can't really seem to find much information on icons in Xfce.  From 
>>> what I understand, Xfce is using the freekdesktop.org icon 
>>> framework.  I have installed the "hicolor" theme from 
>>> freekdesktop.org.  If I want to increase the number of icons on my 
>>> system so that the users have more selection to choose from when 
>>> adding entries to the panel, do I need to download Xfce specific icon 
>>> themes, or do I go to something like http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon 
>>> and download away?
>>
>>
>>
>> Why not try it and find out? ^_~  Those should work ok, though be 
>> aware that there is no standard for the icon names, so Xfce things may 
>> in some areas be expecting icons for particular categories that the 
>> particular theme doesn't provide, or provides under a different file 
>> name.  No way around this really, unless you want to start symlinking.
>>
>>    -brian
> 
> 
> 
> This is exactly what I did a few months ago, with one of the RC 
> versions. I had lots of problems with some of the icon themes that I 
> found on art.gnome.org. They would cause xfdesktop and/or xfce4-panel to 
> crash and other instabilities associated with icons in some of the 
> dialogs. Restarting did not help. I had to delete my ~/.config stuff to 
> restore normal operation. I haven't tried it with 2.4.0. I'm not that 
> curious.
> 

If we don't hear of problems we can't fix them. There were many changes 
to the icon theme support, so it should work for everyone now.

	Jasper



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