Icon problem

[Bernhard Walle]

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> 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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>>>>>>> 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. :-(
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No idea where the settings manager looks for icons?
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
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>> 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.

Even a link in $HOME/.icons does not help. Strace shows that he finds 
it, but ...


Regards,
Bernhard