On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:44 +0530, Ruchir Brahmbhatt wrote:
I'm running Evolutoin on KDE 4.2.1 in OpenSUSE 11.1. Today I tried to change evolution button icons by changing gnome appearance settings through gnome-appearance-properties. I changed icons to oxygen and I was surprised with output. Evolution was looking too good. But after reboot, it reverted back to original. Does anyone know how to make this theme/icon settings permanent in Evolution?
Make sure gnome-settings-daemon is started when you log into KDE. The way it works is Evolution requests icons by some generic name and GTK+ supplies an icon for that generic name from what it thinks is the current icon theme. Appearance Preferences writes your icon theme and other settings to GConf. The problem is GTK+ is a low-level library and doesn't know about GConf. So gnome-settings-daemon serves as an intermediary, listening to GConf and forwarding desktop-wide settings to GTK+ so that GTK-based applications automatically honor those settings. It sounds like what may be happening is after login, GTK+ is using its own default icon theme because gnome-settings-daemon hasn't told GTK+ what icon theme you prefer. My guess is running Appearance Preferences probably spawns gnome-settings-daemon, which then supplies GTK+ with the correct icon theme. And then Evolution suddenly becomes pretty. Hope that makes sense. Matthew Barnes
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