Questions on Xfce4.8 installation

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:57:15 +0530
"Navaneeth.K.N" <navaneethkn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:06:58 +0530
> > "Navaneeth.K.N" <navaneethkn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks a lot. This all worked well. But the setup is not completed
> >> yet. I can see the 4.8 version loaded but clicking on folders from
> >> the desktop is not working. It fails with the message,
> >>
> >> "Method "DisplayFolder" with signature "sss" on interface
> >> "org.xfce.FileManager" doesn't exist"
> >
> > Make sure there is no old version of Thunar installed or running. A
> > number of D-Bus method signatures changed in 4.8.
> 
> Thanks Jannis. I cleared everything and installed again. It works just
> great. I can see the Xfce running. But the theming is not looking
> nice. I have compiled the xfce-gtk-engine and themes from the git repo
> and installed. All my components are installed on /usr/local. But
> somehow the theming is not getting applied. Thunar is not displaying
> icons on the folders and files. Attaching the screenshot.

For a reason I don't know GTK+ requires it's theming engines to be
installed into the same prefix as GTK+ itself. So if you want to use
gtk-xfce-engine, you'll have to install it into /usr. Any other theming
engine installed via your distribution's package manager should work
fine.

  - Jannis