Re: No file icons showing up on Solaris 9/SPARC

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Albert Chin wrote:

> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 12:57:53PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> > I've compiled nautilus-2.2.3.1 for GNOME 2.2.1 on Solaris 9/SPARC with
> > the Sun C compiler. When I start Nautilus, only one type of icon shows
> > up:
> >   ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/outgoing/pub/nautilus.png
> > 
> > This is quite different from nautilus-2.0.7 on GNOME 2.0.2 which
> > appears to display ok. The necessary icons are in DATADIR +
> > "/pixmaps/document-icons/". However, nautilus-find-icon-image.c
> > doesn't exist in nautilus-2.2.3.1 anymore.  What is responsible for
> > looking up the icons in DATADIR + "/pixmaps/document-icons/"?
> 
> Ok, I installed gnome-icon-theme-1.0.2 and gnome-themes-2.2.1. This
> didn't solve the problem. It seems GNOME is looking for
> $prefix/share/icons/hicolor (KDE has this directory). If I symlink one
> of the icon themes in gnome-icon-theme-1.0.2 to
> $prefix/share/icons/hicolor, then I get icons in Nautilus. Is this how
> it's suppose to work?

No. gnome-icon-theme installs a theme called "gnome", and the default icon 
theme used is supposed to be "gnome". "hicolor" is just looked in for 
backwards and KDE compatibility. 

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