Xfce 4.4 - Icon problem

[roger]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:40, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On 4/18/2006 4:33 PM, roger wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I just downloaded the fat tarball of Xfce 4.4 beta 1 and compiled it from
> > source (I didn't use any installer).
> > Basically I compiled everything except exo, mousepad, Terminal and Thunar
> > (I plan to see for those later on); then I installed gtk-xfce-engine in
> > /usr and the rest in /usr/local, on top of the previous Xfce 4.2 (I
> > didn't remove anything prior to this new installation).
> >
> > Xfce 4.4 seems to start properly, the panel is there, as well as
> > xfdesktop and xfwm. However, I have problems with icons - see
> > http://rmlx.dyndns.org/misc/Screenshot.png
> >
> > I created a few panel launchers. They work fine but no icons are
> > displayed. Besides, the Setting Manager only displays a couple of icons!?
> > Changing (general) Themes using the User Interface Preferences GUI seems
> > to work flawlessly. However, nothing happens whatever Icon Theme I
> > choose.
> >
> > Any pointer would be appreciated.
> > I'm running Mandriva 2006 on 32-bit x86.
>
> Sounds like a gtk icon cache problem.  Benny, did you set up xfce4-panel
>  and the MCS manager and plugins to run gtk-update-icon-cache after
> installing?  /me is too lazy to look.
>
> 	-b
Thanks for the response Brian.
However I'm not sure that's a cache-related problem (but I'm not a 
specialist). Actually when 
compiling/installing, /usr/local/share/icons/Rodent/icon-theme.cache does get 
updated.
Anyway, even after having played with gtk-update-icon-cache from the command 
line, removed those cache files, recompiled and re-installed several times, 
still the problem is there. It just seems that the 
directory /usr/local/share/icons/ is not "seen" !? Any idea on what's wrong 
on my system?
Thanks,
Roger