icon theme handling is broken in panel and several apps

[jp]

Thanks, problem is fixed : index.theme is mandatory (in hicolor) for 
GtkIconTheme to work ;)

XfceIconTheme didn't care about it...

Best regards

JP


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> jp wrote:
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>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>> On 3/3/2006 1:41 PM, jp wrote:
>>  
>>     
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have just built the latest svn (r20198), it builds without errors
>>>>> on Zenwalk Linux 2.2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Only half of the icons show in the panel, same for Orage, Xfprint and
>>>>> Settings Manager (no icon at all in this last one).
>>>>>
>>>>> This "thing" called Rodent still works, but Zenwalk theme (Nuovo)
>>>>> that was fully supported by my previous build (~3 weeks ago) looks
>>>>> broken now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please could you tell me if this is the result of a temporary
>>>>> modification, or if I need to work again on theme integration? It's a
>>>>> lot of work, so I would be glad not to spend my time again on this.
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>> Xfce now uses the "standard" GtkIconTheme class for looking up themed
>> icons, instead of the XfceIconTheme I wrote a while ago to work around
>> some of GtkIconTheme's past problems.  GtkIconTheme is a bit less
>> forgiving than XfceIconTheme.  I've attempted to work around these
>> problems to some extent, but it's obviously not perfect.
>>
>> So what I need to try to fix this:
>> 1.  The specific full pathname to the icon that *should* be showing up,
>> but isn't.
>>   
>>     
>>> -> In panel : all icons that are symbolically picked don't show, only
>>> the ones with absolute pathname show,
>>> -> All icons in Settings Manager don't show, except the Xscreensaver one
>>> -> All icons in the xfdesktop menu show OK,  except for Xfprint, Orage
>>> and Thunar
>>> -> Everything else is OK
>>>       
>>> (attached screenshots)
>>>       
>> 2.  The string the panel is using to try to look up the icon (probably
>> just whatever you selected in the panel should do).
>>   
>>     
>>> Same answer : all icons designated by the symbolic name of the icon
>>> don't show. Attached are :
>>> - a tree list of the icon theme used,
>>> - the Zenwalk package containing the theme (for you to reproduce, take
>>> care that it contains a hicolor tree, needed to replace all Rodentish
>>> icons).
>>>       
>> 3.  Your gtk version, out of somewhat idle curiosity.
>>   
>>     
>>> ->  2.8.12
>>>       
>
> I'll look into this a bit more later, but I can't reproduce your
> problem.  I copied the icon theme to /usr/share/icons (just the Nuovo
> directory), switched themes to "Dropline Nuovo" in the UI settings
> panel, and everything seems to work fine.  All of the symbolically
> picked icons in the panel show properly from the Nuovo theme.
>
> Side note: the hicolor directory you tarred up and sent to me didn't
> have an index.theme file.  I'm pretty sure that will cause problems with
> GtkIconTheme, though I'm not sure that it would cause this specific
> problem.  (XfceIconTheme shipped with a fallback hicolor-index.theme
> that was used in the case that hicolor's index.theme wasn't installed
> properly.  Again, GtkIconTheme isn't so forgiving AFAICT.)
>
> Side note #2: You have an 'Xtra' directory inside Nuovo.  GtkIconTheme
> won't find icons in there unless you add it to Nuovo/index.theme.  Each
> subdir with icons needs to be mentioned on the Directories line in the
> [Icon Theme] section, and then each one also needs a [dirname] group of
> its own like the ones in the file for the existing directories.
>
> One more thing: do you have the env var XDG_DATA_DIRS set to something?
>  If so, and it doesn't include /usr/share, that could cause problems
> too.  (If it's not set at all, it defaults to
> "/usr/local/share:/usr/share".)
>
> 	-brian
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