Re: Warning with GTK 2.6. 8 " Could not find the icon 'gnome-fs-home' "

[Gowri Kandasamy <sharmikg gmail com>]

Thanks for the info. I had installed GTK & the theme in /opt/gtk . But GTK
was looking for the theme in /usr/local/share.

Setting XDG_DATA_DIRS to the /opt/gtk/share directory solved the problem.


On 11/8/05, Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Gowri Kandasamy wrote:
>
> > I am using GTK 2.6.8 . When I run my application with this GTK , I get
> the
> > following warning message.
> > I get this when I try to open the file chooser window.
> >
> > (firefox-bin:6267): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon
> 'gnome-fs-home'.
> > The 'hicolor' theme
> > was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
> > You can get a copy from:
> > http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases
> >
> > Has anyone seen this problem?
>
> Yes, I have seen exactly this problem. Suprisingly enough, I solved
> it by doing exactly what was suggested, namely installing the
> hicolor icon them from the URL given.
>
> However, the URL has changed. It's now
>
> http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/wiki/HicolorTheme
>
> (URLS at freedesktop.org <http://freedesktop.org> can't be expected to
> remain stable for more
> than a few weeks at a time, for some reason.)
>
> Allin Cottrell