Re: icon registration

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 03/14/2011 07:49 PM, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
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> Gary Thomas wrote:
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>> On 03/13/2011 08:12 PM, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
>> > Gary,
>> > We have explicitly set the default icon theme as "sato" to fix a bug. You can change /etc/gtk/gtkrc.. for a try.
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>> Wouldn't that be /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc?
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>> I could not find a way to use this file to allow both sets of icon (themes, actually).
>> Do you know how? I don't want to necessarily replace sato, just allow the use of the
>> standard gnome elements.
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> Can you set the icon theme to your theme in the config file? Does it work? Freedesktop spec says all the directories except "hicolor" under /usr/share/icons are scanned (order is
> not defined) first, and then goto "hicolor" if not found. Another issue is you probably need to generate cache for your icon theme by gtk-update-icon-cache.

This is definitely *not* the behaviour.  I did an strace on the program and it is only
looking at /usr/share/icons/sato then /usr/share/icons/hicolor.

I could set the theme, but then what happens to the sato theme?  This seems contradictory
to me.

>> n.b. there seems to be a bug in the GTK libraries that make them fail if the default
>> icons are not available. It tries to render GTK_STOCK_MISSING_IMAGE for the missing
>> icons and this fails if there is no such icon available in the set (e.g. in sato).
>> On ARM at least, this is a fatal segmentation error. Should I report this as a bug
>> in Poky?
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> What's the result of this bug, segfault or no icons on the desktop? If you can reproduce it, pls. file a bug.

On ARM, I get a segmentation error.

The problem with filing a bug is that I see this in midori, a recipe I brought over
from OE (with much pain to build BTW)

>> > Gary Thomas wrote:
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>> >> I built & installed gnome-icon-theme on top of my sato(-like) image,
>> >> but the new icons did not show up. I've built a GTK-webcore application
>> >> (midori browser) that wants to use some GNOME icons that it can't find:
>> >> Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'stock_new-tab' for stock: Icon 'stock_new-tab' not present in te
>> >> For some GTK+ applications, this seems to be fatal :-(
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know how new icon sets might be registered? Shouldn't
>> >> this happen automatically when you install a theme?
>> >>
>> >> n.b. I simply copied the /usr/share/icons/gnome/ tree over /usr/share/icons/Sato
>> >> and the application runs perfectly. I'd rather not have to resort this.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
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