It's impossible to change icon themes on the panel>settings>human interface>icon theme I can select a random theme, the icons stay the same. I can change the theme, and close human interface and settings, no change... I'm using xfce 4.2 beta 2 installed via the installer script, on a mdk10.0
specifically, what icons are staying the same, and when using what themes? many themes do not have the correct icon names that the panel and/or xfdesktop menu use, and so it will fall back to default icons. the only theme that we can guarantee has the proper icons is the rodent theme. we do our best to find fallbacks in other icon themes, but there are unfortunately no standardised names.
>specifically, what icons are staying the same, and when using what themes? I'm currently using xfce-cadmium theme + iKons icon theme. But the icon theme does not matter, I tried to select all of the icon themes one at a time and not a single icon changed. I think the icons I am seeing are the default ones (folders are dark gray, the browser icon is a black circle with a bluish shade + a ring, etc. I suppose it's the rodent theme you mention) >many themes do not have the correct icon names that the panel and/or xfdesktop menu use, and so it will fall back to default icons. I understand, but usually at least a few do change with each theme. Here no icon changes with any theme.
can you give me a list of, specifically, which icon themes do not work?
Amaranth Crux Crystal SVG beta1 default Flat-Blue GNOME Gorilla HighContrast HighContrastInverse HighContrastLargePrint HighContrastLargePrintInverse iKons Industrial KDE-Classic KDE-LoColor Kids beta1 LargePrint LowContrast LowContrastLargePrint Lush Nuvola Sandy Slick Icons Smokey-Blue Smokey-Red Technical-1 Wasp Like I said, no theme works except Rodent. No icon in any theme changes. Nothing changes. Maybe you can give me names of icon files just to check that they were at all installed in my system...
No idea how this could happen. Brian, do you think perhaps some gnome daemon could be interfering with the mcs manager? Or does the mcs dialog use a very different lookup method from xfce icon theme?
reassigning to me so i don't lose track of this anymore. the MCS manager and any possible gnome daemon should be looking up and setting the icon theme in the same way. if gnome-settings-daemon is running, MCS will refuse to start, and vice versa. i can't think of anything else that could be running that would interfere with this. reporter, are you using gtk 2.2 or 2.4?
hi im not the reporter, but i ve the same problem with 4.2 rc1 (In reply to comment #6) > > reporter, are you using gtk 2.2 or 2.4? i m using gtk 2.4, suse 9.1 with use of kernel 2.6.9. regards martin
I am also having the same problem on a Gentoo system with gtk2.4, and with no other window manager on the system. These show up on the list, but it is not changed when selected. There are also a couple other people experiencing the same thing on the Gentoo forums. Crux/ Flat-Blue/ HighContrast/ HighContrastInverse/ HighContrastLargePrint/ HighContrastLargePrintInverse/ LargePrint/ LowContrast/ LowContrastLargePrint/ Rodent/ Sandy/ Smokey-Blue/ Smokey-Red/ gentoo/ gnome/ hicolor/ locolor/
In addition to my last comment, I have found that I can switch to icon themes that are present in ~/.icons, just not in /usr/share/icons. This leads me to believe this bug and bug 531 are related.
hmm, very few of the themes in my list actually do anything. Noia and HighContrastLargePrint seem pretty complete, as do a few others. some icons change here and there for Lush, Nuvola, a few others. using 'find' on /usr/share/icons (where most of my icon themes are stored), it looks like very few of the themes actually have the 'proper' icons, but there seem to be a couple other names that i'm not looking at that might be useful as well. it's still not going to buy us much, but i added a few other possible names. that's really all i can do until/unless someone comes up with a standard way of specifying category icon names. if anyone wants to find some more icons names that might work, feel free. check out libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4/xfce-icontheme.c starting at line 109. they correspond to the XfceIconThemeCategory enum in xfce-icontheme.h at line 37.