Re: [gtk-osx-devel] Problem with dialog box icons

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Jan 30, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Jim Charlton <jim jimc dyndns org> wrote:

> On 14-01-30 11:55 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Jim Charlton <jim jimc dyndns org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 14-01-30 09:05 AM, Ronan Waide wrote:
> > > > On 01/30/2014 04:42 PM, Jim Charlton wrote:
> > > > > I have recently built gtkmm (jhbuild, meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap and then meta-gtk-osx-gtk3,  and finally, 
> > > > > meta-gtk-osx-gtkmm3) on a MAC MAVERICKS machine.  All went well.  I then recompiled a substantial 
> > > > > program.  After some minor adjustments, the code executed as previously compiled on a MAC LION 
> > > > > machine... but... icon images do not appear in the dialog boxes and when run from a console window I 
> > > > > get the following error message.
> > > > >
> > > > > Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'dialog-warning-symbolic'. The 'hicolor' theme
> > > > > was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
> > > > > You can get a copy from:
> > > > >    http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases
> > > > >
> > > > > hicolor is in the .../gtk/inst/share/icons directory... but it seems like it is ignored.
> > > > >
> > > > > If I install the hicolor theme to /usr/local/share, then this message goes away but the icons are still 
> > > > > missing.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone have any hints as to how I can get the icons back?
> > > > sounds like this bug:
> > > > https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=7356
> > > >
> > > > cheers,
> > > > Waider.
> > > Thanks for the link.  I have read all of the comments there and perused the documentation cited.  It is 
> > > an interesting academic discussion... but I do not see clearly how I can edit my code to adjust to the 
> > > new reality of the deprecated GTK stock items.  SInce I am working with gtkmm code, it is one level of 
> > > abstraction above the GTK+ code.  So what do I do with lines like:
> > > Gtk::MessageDialog dialog("Dialog message", FALSE, Gtk::MESSAGE_WARNING, Gtk::BUTTONS_CLOSE);
> > > to get a warning icon to appear in the dialog box?  Any further hints?
> > I'm actually trying to figure that out now. In the case of the Gramps bug, most of the icons do appear. At 
> > the moment I'm working the angle that there are some icons which are provided by some other package 
> > besides hicolor-icon-theme; gnome-icon-theme seems a strong possiblity.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> I checked on installations of my program on various MAC OS versions.  Code that was compiled last year on a 
> MAC LION OS using gtk-osx that had the gtk stock items, displays the dialog-warning icon.  When I search 
> for the icon image on the machine where the program was compiled, I find it in 
> .../gtk/source/gtk+-3.0/gtk/stock-icons/48/dialog-warning.png and nowhere else.  If I move the compiled 
> code to a MAC MOUNTAIN LION machine the icon also displays but that machine does not have a copy of the 
> dialog-warning.png file anywhere that I can find.  Do icon images go into a database or something???  On a 
> linux (Ubuntu OS) using the high contrast theme, the icon that displays is the one that is identical to 
> that found at /usr/share/icons/HighContrast/48x48/status/dialog-warning.png.  The compiled code on Ubuntu 
> is that which was compiled today with updated Ubuntu packages (not sure if stock items are there or not).
>
> What I find strange is that on a MAC machine (Mavericks) with the hicolor theme installed, my code gives no 
> error message about missing dialog-warning image..  But the icon image is still a red X instead of the 
> correct image.
>
> Hope some of this is helpful...

Not unless it's the same version of Gtk in all three builds. The icon handling seems to have changed between 
3.6 and 3.8 and again between 3.8 and 3.10. I'm still trying to figure it out.

Regards,
John Ralls