Re: [Evolution] missing/broken Evolution icons on FreeBSD 5.4 after portupgrade

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 00:55 -0400, Daniel Shakhmundes wrote:
> Hi guenther,
>
> You are correct in guessing that I use KDE.
> I had the latest gnome-icon-theme and hicolor-icon-theme installed,
> but I did "portupgrade -f gnome-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme" anyway.
>  After restarting XWindows, icons were still missing as shown in the
> screen-capture on my blog http://shakh.blogspot.com
>
> I am not sure how to start gnome-settings-daemon.  It looks to me as
> though it is a part of sysutils/gnomecontrolcenter2, which does not
> seem to be installed.  However, I have been running Evolution for more
> than 1.5 years now.

True, gnome-settings-daemon is part of the GNOME Control Center.

> Thanks for your help.  Let me know if there is any other information I
> can provide, and/or what to do from here.

Try starting gnome-settings-daemon, as I told you before (which is below
in this case...). A courageous

  $prefix/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon

should do. If this solves your issue (which I am pretty positive it
will), add the gnome-settings-daemon to your X session.

Yes, having the GNOME Control Center around ain't a bad idea either. Any
GNOME app (like Evolution) will listen to the GNOME settings only and
does not even know about KDE settings -- vice versa for KDE apps.

...guenther


> On 5/9/06, guenther <guenther rudersport de> wrote:
> > > I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and recently upgraded all installed ports
> > > (portupgrade -a).  Now I am missing icons/images in Evolution, which
> > > display a page with a red X instead.
> > >
> > > Icons that don't work:  New, Send/Recieve, flags, folder icons in Side Bar..
> > > Icons that do work:  Print, Delete, Cancel..
> > >
> > > How can I resolve this problem?
> >
> > Sounds familiar in various ways.
> >
> > (a) You need to install gnome-icon-theme and hicolor-icon-theme.
> > (b) Came across this very topic recently on IRC, FreeBSD too.
> > Turned out that guy was using Evolution with a KDE desktop, but the
> > gnome-settings-daemon was not started for him.
> >
> > Not sure if this is specific to your system/packager, but judging from
> > questions related to this, it likely is.
> >
> > Anyway, try starting gnome-settings-daemon, and I am pretty sure this
> > will fix things. Just as well as I am pretty positive that you are
> > running KDE, without you mentioning it. ;-)

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