Re: odd icons displayed

[Takis Diakoumis <takisd alphalink com au>]

Hi

This was never a show stopper and clearly didn't generate much interest
- but for anyone else having this problem, here is what i've found.

i got it working again by placing the icon set i was using (my user)
within /root/.icons also (i could have also put it under
/usr/share/icons i guess). the icon set was one i downloaded and only
installed for my user. as it wasn't available to root when i opened
nautilus as root it would just default to those crappy icons. under 2.4
it didn't matter what icons i was using as root's selected icons were
used regardless. not so here. it appears to be trying to use the same
set and when it couldn't find it - it would just dump anf give me those
ugly grey sheets of paper (at least that what they looked like).

anyway... don't know if this is a bug or anything like that. either way
problem solved and if anyone else is experiencing the same thing,
perhaps the above will fix it.

Thanks

Takis


On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 18:33, Takis Diakoumis wrote:
> Hi
> 
> a feature i use often is the ability to launch a nautilus browser under
> (say) the root user (a bit of a 'file manager super user mode').
> upgrading to gnome 2.6.1 with nautilus 2.6.3 i seem to have lost the
> icons displayed in both the tree on the side pane and the main view. 
> 
> all i get is what i think is the default icon of 'i don't know this file
> type' for gnome. though i can't seem to find it in the icons dir it
> looks like a gray sheet of paper drawn at an angle from the top-left
> with a slight fold at that point (sorry about the poor description).
> anyway, its all i get for any file including directories displayed when
> running a nautilus browser as another user. 
> 
> strangely this is also the icon displayed for image files when that
> image is too small - i've noticed <= 24px. so instead of showing a
> scaled image of the image - it resorts to that icon (no big deal with
> this one - but it used to work under 2.4). this happens under any user.
> 
> anyway, none of the above are intrusive or make the system
> non-functioning. they're just a couple of things i've noticed in the way
> nautilus displays things since i moved from 2.4.
> 
> i could very well be missing a setting somewhere.
> any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks heaps.
> Takis
>