Bug#477429: no evident name of theme for gnome-icon-theme

Xavier Brochard xavier at alternatif.org
Wed Apr 23 09:54:10 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:17:33 Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 23 avril 2008 à 10:06 +0200, Xavier Brochard a écrit :
> > when using gnome apps with another desktop, some of them (e.g. PCMan
> > File Manager) complains (at startup) about GTK icon theme:
> > they ask for defining theme in ~/.gtkrc-2.0
>
> Then, there is a bug in either the application or in GTK+. The Debian
> version of GTK+ should always fall back to the "gnome" theme when
> available.

The app complain at startup but use the "gnome" theme.
Adding gtk-icon-theme-name="gnome" in my gtkrc change nothing.

I forgot to say: I don't use gnome, only some gnome apps sometimes.

Should I fill a bug report for GTK+ of for apps ?

> > But it is hard to find the correct theme name for package
> > gnome-icon-theme, as the name is not in package description.
>
> The name is "gnome", but the problem is not here.

ok
however, the name should be provided in package description :-)

> Are you sure you are not hitting a case of spurious icon cache creation
> in /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache?

I don't have such a file

-- 
à bientôt, Xavier
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