• From: The Forbidden Planet
  • Registered: 2009-11-08
  • Posts: 1,952

Topic: Icon trouble!

Hi

Ok im having some trouble with my icons.
#1 is when i go to menu>preferences>user interface settings>icon there is an option to install an icon set.  But when i try and install a tar.bz2 i get the following error:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
mcdowall@mcdowall-desktop:~$

#2 installing tar.gz icon themes goes fine... but where do they get installed to?

#3 many applications are not using my theme icon.

Last edited by mrpeachy (2009-11-18 15:46:23)

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  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: Icon trouble!

2. Look under ~/.local/share/icons/

If you want to install icons yourself, you can just use the ~/.icons directory.

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  • From: The Forbidden Planet
  • Registered: 2009-11-08
  • Posts: 1,952

Re: Icon trouble!

anonymous wrote:

2. Look under ~/.local/share/icons/

If you want to install icons yourself, you can just use the ~/.icons directory.

thanks anonymous, found them!

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  • From: The Forbidden Planet
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Re: Icon trouble!

A post from Thill77 regarding #3 applications not using theme icons

    ok, here the answer of Alexander Larsson of freedesktop.

    > Hi,
    > > Have read Icon and EWMH specification, but can't found an answer to the
    > > question
    > > "When you change an icon theme, how to force an application to reload
    > > current icon theme ?
    > > and who is responsible for this task ?".

    Each app is responsible for this themselves. The icon theme is changed
    by changing an Xsetting, which gtk+ will pick up. It will then emit the
    "changed" signal on the default GtkIconTheme and the "style_set" signal
    on all related widgets.

    Its up to applications to catch these signals and change the icon they
    set for the window. This is easiest done with gtk_window_set_icon_name()
    which handles all this for you.

So it seems that the issue lies with each individual application!
So far I have posted bug reports for:
Firefox
GIMP

Unfortunately I will be unable to get together an exhaustive list of all the applications that don't play nice.

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