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

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
> 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.
[...]
> 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.

No, there's nothing actually wrong here, aside from a poor choice of 
defaults.  Despite what it may look like, hicolor is NOT an icon theme. 
  It's a dumping ground for default icons and fallbacks.  It's not meant 
to be complete.

What we should be doing is either a) somehow requiring that a particular 
icon theme be installed (which I don't like), b) putting up a warning 
dialog if hicolor is set as the icon theme, c) hard-coding a short 
(incomplete) list of icon themes we know work ok, and trying them as 
defaults before falling back to hicolor -- which should really never be 
set as the system icon theme anyway.

(b) is probably the best solution.  Someone should implement that... I 
don't really have time.

	-brian