Thunderbird Icon in iconbox?

[Nic Stevens]

Matt Thompson wrote:
> Andrew Conkling wrote:
>   
>> On 4/6/06, Nic Stevens <nic.stevens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> That's a problem with fedora 5's thunderbird. Install the latest
>>> thunderbird from mozilla. You will need to have
>>> compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5 installed for that to work.
>>>
>>> Matt Thompson wrote:
>>>       
>>>> This is a FAQ, I think, but I wanted to make sure.  Is there a way to
>>>> get the iconbox to use the Thunderbird icon rather than the "three-box"
>>>> one?  I know Firefox displays its icon, so I thought that Tb would as well.
>>>>
>>>> If not, do I talk to Fedora or Mozilla about fixing it?
>>>>         
>> Matt, accordingly, you should probably talk to Fedora about fixing it.
>>  Maybe it's already in their bugtracker?
>>     
>
> Indeed it is.  In fact, *every* DE is missing the icon, Gnome, KDE...
> To wit:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177823
>
> Turns out the icon is in the srpm, it's just not ever copied over into a
> Tb directory.  How this got through QA who knows.
>
> Oh well, sorry for the waste of bandwidth.
>
> Matt
>
>   

Hi,

GTK2 specifies that all applications supply their own icon. So any GTK2 
desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc) will all have the same issue 
with the missing icon.

-Nic

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