Re: WHere is the icons

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Daniel Kasak wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Daniel,
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Daniel Kasak <d j kasak dk gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > I posted on this topic a little while back ( a month or 2 from memory ).
> > The
> > > icon theme you're using has to have icons of the same name that you're
> > > trying to use. If you're using a 'default' ( eg adwaita ) icon theme in
> > > conjunction with icon names that used to work a couple of years ago,
> > you're
> > > likely to have issues. Either choose an older icon theme, or migrate to
> > the
> > > new 'best practices'.
> >
> > Problem is I am not running under GNOME. I have KDE4 installed on my
> > machine and
> > I'm trying to port the GTK2 app to work with GTK3.
>
> I don't use KDE, but I recommend using Gnome, at least until you're on top
> of these issues. Read up on the ways of setting your icon theme if you're
> not going to use Gnome. I don't use Gnome either, by the way ( and so I
> know what it's like to get gtk+ to play nicely outside it ).

I'm a big enthusiast for Gtk in general but this is one reason why I 
prefer Gtk 2 for cross-platform usage (though I'm mostly OK with Gtk 
3 on gnome-aware Linux). As of version 2, Gtk used to be completely 
gnome-independent.

Allin Cottrell