Xfdesktop does not display application icons properly

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Fabian Nowak wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 12.08.2008, 22:27 +0200 schrieb Fabian Nowak:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> since several months with a rather old svn trunk version (slightly
>> after 4.4 release), I did not have any "nice" starter icons on the 
>> desktop on my main PC with Debian, though I do not have any problems 
>> with regular Debian packages on my laptop and Ubuntu packages on my 
>> machine at work, i.e. most icons except for folders, trash, home, are 
>> just simple i-am-a-text-file icons -- only for this one and only machine.
>>
>> Do you have any idea of any dependencies that might have been forgotten
>> for a long time to check in the configure script? It configures nicely
>> all the time, and I tried current svn a few weeks ago, same problem,
>> even updated now.
>> Trying an apt-get install xfdesktop4 does not propose any non-xfce 
>> packages to be added, so the  distro guys did not add additional 
>> dependencies. Or are you aware of any cleanups in ~/.config that have 
>> to be undertaken to make things work again? I had a problem with 
>> irregular icon sizes at another PC, but already checked that... Same 
>> applies for icon themes - using Tango  already for a long time anyway.
>>
>> Dbus libs are installed, header files as well, dbus-daemon is running.
>>
>> Btw., I pretty much like current svn xfdesktop, especially with regard
>> to how the context menus and desktop menus are handled, nice work.
> 
> Fixed it myself: Current Xfdesktop from trunk and installation of 
> gtk-xfce-engine-2 made it run again. So I'd recommend including a hard
> dependency in the autochain for gtk-xfce-engine-2 (by depending on some
> files installed by the package, or introducing some package-config files
> in the engine  package if not already softly depending -- can't quite figure
> that out).

No, this has nothing to do with gtk-xfce-engine.  I fixed this bug in 
xfdesktop a week or so ago.

	-brian