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Rodent icon theme is not used by default
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Xfsettingsd

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Description Robby Workman editbugs 2008-10-31 21:27:21 CET
I've just built 4.5.91.  With a brand new user account, the Rodent icon theme is not used by default when Xfce starts up (instead, CrystalSVG from kde is chosen - it happens to be the first in the list of choices, so whether that's important or not, I'm not sure).  This causes *many* icons to be missing.

The Rodent theme is present and functional, because if I manually select it in the Settings manager, then all is well thereafter.
Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2008-11-01 15:43:34 CET
The appearance settings defaults to "hicolor" which is not correct IMHO.

Can you try with rev. 28560. or later?
Comment 2 Robby Workman editbugs 2008-11-01 23:10:18 CET
Confirmed fixed in 28562.  Thanks!
Comment 3 Stephan Arts editbugs 2008-11-10 06:08:11 CET
According to the XSETTINGSRegistry spec, 'hicolor' is correct.

     http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/XSettingsRegistry

To change the 'default' theme used, this must be fixed inside xsettings.xml
Comment 4 Stephan Arts editbugs 2008-11-10 06:10:10 CET
(In reply to comment #3)
> According to the XSETTINGSRegistry spec, 'hicolor' is correct.
> 
>      http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/XSettingsRegistry
> 
> To change the 'default' theme used, this must be fixed inside xsettings.xml

For the record: xsettings.xml was missing in beta1 -- that's why this bug exists there, is has been fixed for quite some time now. (but it defaulted to Tango, gonna replace that with Rodent in a minute)
Comment 5 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2008-11-13 03:29:53 CET
For the record, 'hicolor' is not a useful theme and should never be presented to the user as existing, unless no other themes are available (and in that case, I'd say just present 'None' as the theme).

Is this fixed?  Can we close this?
Comment 6 Robby Workman editbugs 2008-11-13 04:30:50 CET
Yep, fixed.  Verified in r28778:

$ cat /etc/xfce/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<channel name="xsettings" version="1.0">
  <property name="Net" type="empty">
    <property name="ThemeName" type="string" value="Xfce"/>
    <property name="IconThemeName" type="string" value="Rodent"/>
  </property>
</channel>

I'll go ahead and close this one.  Thanks, guys!  :-)

Bug #4545

Reported by:
Robby Workman
Reported on: 2008-10-31
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

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Assignee:
Stephan Arts
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