Re: Problems with icon-themes with cvs HEAD nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Darryl Rees wrote:

> I wonder if anybody could give me any suggestions for troubleshooting 
> this...
> 
> I have built gnome from cvs HEAD (parallel to stock RH8.0 gnome 2). 
> Unfortunately the icons are completely borked on the desktop and under 
> nautilus. If I use the default gnome icon theme every file (including 
> folders) has the 'blank dog-eared piece of paper' icon. If I use the 
> bluecurve icon theme then .tar.gz and core files get a reasonable icon.
> 
> I've already installed gnome-icon-themes.
> 
> Also it's picking up the icon theme directories from /usr/share/icons 
> instead of {PARALLEL_BUILD_PREFIX}/share/icons, which isn't what I expected.
> 
> Anybody have any quick ideas for troubleshooting? I'm assuming its 
> something to do with my setup, there is no mention of a current bug like 
> this in bugzilla and I've tried updating my nautilus cvs a couple of 
> times over the last couple of weeks. I just don't want to spend hours 
> looking for the problem if possible.

Change your icon theme to "gnome" or make the bluecurve icon theme inherit 
from "gnome".


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