[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#469621: Don't use Rodent stock icons inside Xfce-* themes

Mike Massonnet mmassonnet at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 10:42:13 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:17:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:38:26AM +0000, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> > I tried a few things to see if I can get rid of Rodent stock icons,
> > despit of the chosen icon theme.  They appear only in Xfce-* themes,
> > which have a "include" line at the end.  Yesterday someone joined
> > #debian-xfce and had the same behavior as I do on my AMD64 (where I use
> > deb sid packages).
> > 
> > As of the changelog, this behavior has been included since early 2005
> > (2.2.5-2).  What do you think of it?  Fine to keep it removed?
> 
> As a side note: stock icons *may* be provided by icon themes, but that's only
> a "may". So it seems the default behavior is to have them provided by gtk
> theme. If they don't ship it directly, they can include another theme or
> something like that.
> 
> I'm fine removing the include line (already done in svn) but I'd like to be
> sure there's no problem with stock icons in Xfce without it (like, not having
> some icons, or something like that).
> 
> Can you check that too?

I did an install without any icon themes at all (except
hicolor-icon-theme which rdepends on libgtk2.0-0).  The only annoyance
is that Thunar uses for every file a fallback icon.  The rest is OK.

mike





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