Re: GEP 7 - icons and thumbnails - gnome_icon_loader

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 30 Sep 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> > I did something a bit like this after the rename. There are no accessors 
> > yet, but its slightly more abstracted out. Going fully abstract might be a 
> > better idea though.
> 
> 	Will you take a patch to fully abstract this ? I can't think of any
> good performance reason to have it like this.

Gladly.
 
> > > 	Somehow I'm not getting anything but the builtin icon for everything;
> > > it's certainly something stupid I'm doing though.
> > 
> > Make sure you use the "gnome" icon theme, or a theme that inherits from 
> > it.
> 
> 	No idea how I do that; I just installed all the packages and assumed it
> would work without further intervention. I assumed the 'default' theme
> would have pretty icons - but perhaps that's just for want of artistic
> endeavour.

The "default" theme is an empty theme that is supposed to be used by third 
party applications that want to install multiple-size themeable 
application icons (cross-desktop compat thing). The "gnome" theme is the 
default theme for gnome (listed in the .schemas file). I expect all icon 
themes for Gnome will inherit from it and just override icons.

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