Re: icon registration

["Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com>]

Gary Thomas wrote:
>
> On 03/14/2011 07:49 PM, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> > 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.
>

Does sato has icon with same name as your theme? If so, no need to 
search your theme. Any unique icons in your theme are chosen?

> 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?
> >>
> >
> > 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:
> >> >>
> >> >> 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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