desktop doesn't have different icons for different file types and dbus requirement and taskbar and toolbar at same place?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> > 1) My wife's desktop only shows one icon graphic that looks like a piece 
> > of paper. This is repeated for all types of file types or folders.
> 
> Install and use a decently complete icon theme, like Tango or 
> gnome-icon-theme.  In addition, you also must have hicolor-icon-theme 
> installed for icon theming to work properly.

Thank you Brian for the feedback.

In my case, it wasn't about being "complete" but only one generic icon was 
being used for everything.

So I tested some more. One user worked fine (running in Xnest) but other 
didn't.

I ktraced xfdesktop for both.

The one that had one generic icon for all used 
/usr/pkg/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and other 
/usr/pkg/share/icons/hicolor/ files.

The one that did work (different icons) used /usr/pkg/share/icons/Rodent/
files.

So in the desktop that didn't work. I went to Xfce Settings Manager, chose 
User Interface Preferences and changed the Icon Theme from "hicolor" to 
"Rodent" and all the icons worked. I also tried "GNOME" and those icons 
worked too.

So Rodent index.theme and many images are from xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.2

My hicolor index.theme is from hicolor-icon-theme-0.10nb1 and the icons 
are from libxfce4gui-4.4.2

I wonder if this was packaged wrong. Or if somehow my 
/usr/pkg/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache is wrong. Or related to 
gtk-update-icon-cache. I just don't know.

At least my icons look nice now (using Rodent theme). It would be nice to 
get hicolor to work fine. If anyone has ideas on how to troubleshoot this 
please let me know so I can get the pkgsrc packages fixed.

(Thanks for the other information too. I need to look at the fam/gamin and 
dbus setup later.)