Re: gtk and hicolor theme

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 21:06 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> The freedesktop.org URL is spurious (flakiness of wiki?), but that's 
> a minor issue.  The more substantial issue is that I don't feel that 
> my gtk app should depend on the installation of gnome themes.

Yes, linking to stuff on www.freedesktop.org is painful, since the links
tend to break... hicolor is not a gnome theme though, it is a set of
basic icons needed for icon theme support, and is hosted on
freedesktop.org.

> I went ahead and downloaded hicolor-icon-theme, version 0.5 (after 
> wading through several layers of the freedesktop wiki to find it),
> but when I stalled this package in the same place as gtk2 (namely 
> /opt/gtk2), it did not remove the warning quoted above.

You probably need to point gtk at the icons by including
opt/gtk2/share in XDG_DATA_DIRS.

Matthias