Xfce 4.6 RC1 strange behavior

[Mike Massonnet]

Hi Pascal,

Le Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:27:53 -0800 (PST),
Pascal Gervais <pggervais at yahoo.ca> a écrit :

> Hi
> 
> I have a really strange behavior with Xfce 4.6 RC1.
> 
> I had not seen this before because I use and always launches the
> Settings Manager with a keyboard shortcut, without ever having
> launched the different configuration dialogs one by one in the menu.
> So, by running each configuration dialog from the Xfce menu, I saw
> that many of them did not display icons on their buttons.
> 
> I thought at first it was a problem with my icon theme, so I have
> installed the same (tango) that I saw on the Xfce 4.6 tour web page
> of Jérôme, but the problem was still there.
> 
> One of the differences that came to mind between the screenshots of
> the Xfce 4.6 tour and my system is that you use Xfce in English, me
> in French. And it's seems that the problem was there.
> 
> As picture is worth than a thousand words, at left, the configuration
> dialog of the mouse and the desktop in French and at right the same
> in English: http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1897/21022009.png
> 
> The keyboard layout tab, where you can see that not only the Close
> and Help buttons does not have an icon, but also the buttons Add,
> Edit and Delete: http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/9602/210220092.png

I figure the problem is that most Glade files still have the
translatable bit on for stock items.

> The configuration dialogs that have this problem:
> Accessibility
> Display
> Appearance
> Desktop
> Keyboard
> Settings Editor
> Session and Startup
> Mouse

Now this list is very helpful, thank you!

> Those who do not have this problem:
> Xfce 4 Settings Manager
> Preferred Applications
> Removable Drives and Media
> Workspaces
> Window Manager
> File Manager
> Panel
> Window Manager Tweaks
> Xfce 4 Calendar Settings
> Xfce 4 Printing System Settings
> 
> I'm on Debian Lenny and my locale is set to:
> 
> $ locale
> LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_CA.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> If I reconfigure my system to be in English with "dpkg-reconfigure
> locale", set it to en_CA.UTF-8 (English Canada UTF-8) and restart,
> icons reappear like magic...
> 
> If you needs more informations, please ask!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Pascal

Regards
Mike