Re: gtk themes, missing icons ?

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Marc Weber <marco-oweber gmx de> wrote:

> From: Marc Weber <marco-oweber gmx de>
> Subject: gtk themes, missing icons ?
> To: gtk-list gnome org
> Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 4:12 PM
> Hi @ll.
> 
> I finally suceeded in startin pitivi on nixos.
> However I don't like the way I've done it so
> I'd like to ask wether there is a better way?
> 
> Can I tell an application where the installation directory
> of a theme such as gnome-icon-theme-2.22.0
> is?
> 
> the gnome-icon-theme-2.22.0 theme directory contains
> ./share/icons/gnome/index.theme
> ./share/icons/hicolor/index.theme
> However only the gnome directory contains audio-x-generic
> icons.
> 
> Which is the way to tell an application to either use the
> gnome directory only
> or fallback to that direoctory?
> 
> Redirecting me to the documentaion is fine..
> 
> Thanks
> Marc Weber
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Error diagnostic WRT themes is horrible in gtk+. I.e. error messages are 
quite unclear, when they are printed, there is no clear indication which
directories were actually scanned.

Here is a piece I once read:

http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/gtk/gtk-running.html

didn't find it quite clear though ...

Regards,
  Sergei.