Icon problem

[Bernhard Walle]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Bernhard Walle wrote:
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>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
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>>> Bernhard Walle wrote:
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>>>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
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>>>>> Bernhard Walle wrote:
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>>>>>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
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>>>>>>> Bernhard Walle wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> Halleluja, sounds like 
>>>>>>>>> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490 to me. Still a 
>>>>>>>>> show stopper for 4.2, tho I hoped that by any chance we 
>>>>>>>>> magically fixed this problem before rc2, as nobody reported it 
>>>>>>>>> recently. :-(
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No idea where the settings manager looks for icons?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please take a screenshot of the settings manager dialog with the 
>>>>>>> missing icons and post it here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.bwalle.de/temp/shot.png
>>>>>> I think that's better than posting it as attachment.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Where did you install Xfce to?
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>>>> /usr/, but the gtk engine to /opt/gnome/ (it's necessary)
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>>> So, the icon stuff installed by Xfce went to /usr/share/icons, 
>>> whereas the default hicolor theme and other gtk/gnome stuff is in 
>>> /opt/gnome/share/icons?
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>> Yes, Rotent is in /usr/share/icons/Rodent and gtk icons are in 
>> /opt/gnome/share/icons/. But it was the same with rc1.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure about Brians changes to XfceIconTheme after rc1, but I 
> think that the long standing "missing icons" bug is really a simple path 
> problem. Can you try to temporary copy the hicolor theme from 
> /usr/share/icons over to /opt/gnome/share/icons and see if that fixes 
> the problem (Xfce restart required)?

A Link /usr/share/icons/hicolor to  /opt/gnome/share/icons/hicolor/ 
doesn't fix the problem. But it makes the "Rox" theme working in the 
panel, but that's another story.


Regards,
Bernhard