Xfce Settings Manager icons

[bybor]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:19 PM, David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:52 AM, bybor <bybor at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm using XFCE 4.6.1 in Zenwalk 6.2.
>>
>> Wanted to set custom icon theme downloaded from gnome-look.org
>>
>> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ALLBLACK?content=70630
>> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Nostromo?content=101422
>>
>> The icon themes are applied, but after X restart Settings Manager
>> doesn't show icons for all of its applets, drawing empty placeholder
>> in their place. Trying to select them with keyboard and pressing
>> 'Enter' leads to Settings Manager being closed.
>>
>> Not sure, if it's possible to use gnome icons in XFCE?
>> The used themes may lack icons used in Settings Manager, but I've read
>> somewhere that standard icons are used in this case.
>>
>> Tried running gtk-update-icon-cache for selected theme before and
>> after applying it.
>>
>> Any hints will be appreciated.
>
> I had a look at the ALLBLACK icon theme. It says on the page that it's
> not complete, but the theme does not inherit any icons from another
> theme - so there is no fallback to "standard" icons because the theme
> author did not set that up. Have a look at the index.theme file and
> compare i.e. Tango's with the ones you are trying out.
>
> ~David
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Thanks for your answer. I guess I should learn more about icon themes.