xffm issues

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 05:36, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2003 12:07:07 +0200
> Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at moongroup.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 05 May 2003 22:02:24 +0200
> > Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> > ...
> > > - installing on a fresh system does not work. xffm complains about
> > > the installation ("dude, check your installation" or something like
> > > that) but the install was fine (at least from a user point of view) 
> > 
> > Edscott,
> > 
> > I see that you moved all your icon themes to xfce4-extras. That
> > doesn't work. The xfce4-extras module is supposed to be a repository
> > for non-essential additional packages. A bit like a contrib area.
> > Obviously, at least one icon theme is essential for xffm, so that
> > should be in the xffm package.
> > 
> > Then, even if you do install the extras, xffm breaks because there is
> > no mime.xml file installed.
> > 
> > I think I can fix the icon stuff, without breaking too much other
> > things, if you want. Let me know if I can help,
> > 
> 
> I see I was wrong, you do install some themes. Perhaps you should popup
> a dialog to inform the user no icons were found and choosing another
> icon theme may solve the problem.

Here's where the "hey dude" message appears, but it goes to stdout where
it doesn't do much good. How does this sound?:

if (!xffm icons) look for icons installed by kde, gnome, or redhat.
if (!kde_icons && !gnome_icons && !redhat_icons) use no_icons theme

Edscott


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