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Only ~/.icons are avaliable in Icons themes preferences gui
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RESOLVED: INVALID
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Xfce-mcs
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Description Xan 2004-11-24 14:09:09 CET
Hi,

I installed the xfce 4.2rc1 with the installer provided by os-cillation. During
the installation all was fine. I installed the xfce4.2rc1 in the home directory
~/temporal/xfce4rc1/xfce4dir [I could give you the .xfce4.installer-log if you
need it; I don't know how can I attach archives here]

First time I entered in xfce4.2rc1, I went to preferences-->user interface
pref-->icons preferences. I observed two things:

1) There are few icons in that list while in my system I have a lot of them.
These icon themes are only from ~/.icons. The icon system-wide themes are not
listed.

My place of system-wide icons is not unusual:


/usr/share/icons/ll
total 152
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3949 2004-11-01 01:07 abiword_48.png
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2004-06-25 13:37 Amaranth
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root  4096 2004-08-06 17:39 Crux
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root  4096 2003-08-11 15:20 Crystal
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root  4096 2004-09-25 15:37 crystalsvg
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1020 2004-08-18 03:27 dasher.png
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     5 2004-06-08 22:41 Default -> gnome
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root root    10 2004-09-25 15:37 default.kde -> crystalsvg
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  4096 2004-08-06 17:40 Flat-Blue
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  4096 2004-06-08 22:41 gnome
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 2004-06-25 13:37 Gorilla
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root  4096 2004-06-24 19:17 hicolor
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 2004-06-16 17:17 ikons
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root  4096 2004-07-27 00:49 Industrial
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 22831 2004-04-29 01:39 irate.xpm
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 2004-06-16 17:17 kdeclassic
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 2004-06-16 17:17 kids
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 2004-07-20 14:50 locolor
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 2004-06-16 17:17 Locolor
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2004-06-25 13:37 Lush
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root  4096 2003-09-29 17:59 noia_kde_100
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2004-06-25 13:37 Nuvola
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root  4096 2004-08-06 17:39 Sandy
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 2004-06-16 17:17 slick
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2004-08-06 17:39 Smokey-Blue
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2004-08-06 17:39 Smokey-Red
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2004-05-27 17:25 SphereCrystal
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 2004-06-16 17:17 Technical
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 14648 2003-06-18 12:57 tux-icon.xpm
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2004-06-25 13:37 Wasp
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root  4096 2004-11-14 20:06 wm-icons
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   633 2004-10-09 00:24 xchat_mini.xpm
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    19 2004-04-22 17:31 xine.xpm -> ../pixmaps/xine.xpm

So the system-wide icon themes (in usual place) are not listed.

2) In this list of few themes, I have selected "hicolor". But, when I click in
other icon themes, the "hicolor" desapeared, and so I could not select another time.

Why "hicolor" disapeared?. Why could I not select it another time?. I consider
it a bug [an item of the list is dropped without any reason and the user could
not select when he/she wants]


These are two bugs, but I considered better to put together because it were
consequences of one action.
Comment 1 Andrew Conkling 2004-11-24 17:41:07 CET
As mentioned on the mailing list, it is normal behaviour for "hicolor" to 
disappear when you select something else; it is only there as a backup option.
Comment 2 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2004-11-24 19:05:07 CET
(In reply to comment #0)

> 1) There are few icons in that list while in my system I have a lot of them.
> These icon themes are only from ~/.icons. The icon system-wide themes are not
> listed.
> 
> My place of system-wide icons is not unusual:
> 
> 
> /usr/share/icons/ll

what is /usr/share/icons/ll?  /usr/share/icons is the proper directory for these
themes, and XfceIconTheme is *not* going to look in subdirectories for toplevel
theme directories.

> 2) In this list of few themes, I have selected "hicolor". But, when I click in
> other icon themes, the "hicolor" desapeared, and so I could not select another
time.
> 
> Why "hicolor" disapeared?. Why could I not select it another time?. I consider
> it a bug [an item of the list is dropped without any reason and the user could
> not select when he/she wants]

as i said and andrew repeats, this is intended behavior.  hicolor is *not* an
icon theme.  it's a place to put fallback icons for when the selected theme
doesn't have the particular named icon.  it's there as a theme for historical
reasons.

> These are two bugs, but I considered better to put together because it were
> consequences of one action.

please don't.  they're not related one bit.
Comment 3 Xan 2004-11-25 11:10:39 CET
Related to "hicolor" theme. Formally, if it appears it could not be drop
"without" aparent reason. The user will see strange this bevaviour. Is it so
dificult to mantain this item in the list as any other theme?
Comment 4 Xan 2004-11-25 11:13:25 CET
Refering to "/usr/share/icons/ll". Sorry. The place has to be
"/usr/share/icons/". And I run ll in that directory. Sorry. So, instead of
"/usr/share/icons/ll" it has to be:

"cd /usr/share/icons/
ll"

So the place of my system-wide icons is usual

Xan.
Comment 5 Joel Majka 2004-12-07 04:49:42 CET
I have a similar and possibly related problem as I mentioned in bug 426. My
/usr/share/icons are available to select unlike yours, but no icons change when
traversing the list. However, icons that are in ~/.icons are both selectable and
work. I have no other window manager on my machine.
Comment 6 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2004-12-16 06:10:25 CET
since in another bug, you noted that your XDG_DATA_DIRS variable (which controls
the icon search paths as well) was nonstandard and messed up, this definitely is
a problem with your setup.  please either unset XDG_DATA_DIRS before starting
xfce, or make sure that /usr/share is listed in it.
Comment 7 Xan 2004-12-28 12:54:23 CET
Brian,

For closing this bug:

- I admit that the guilty is from the variable XDG_DATA_DIRS that in the old
xfce (4.0.6) has one value and in the new xfce another (4.2rc1). But why when I
installed xfce4.2rc1 it did not "copy" the value of XDG_DATA_DIRS of my old xfce
4.0.6?. A purely desktop user will thank that xfce installer automatically copy
the key values of XDG_* variables from his/her old xfce to the new, and that
he/she will not have to do that manually.

Perhaps a revision of installer is good in that sense.

- Over "hicolor" theme, I think that formally there is still a bug. Formally,
"hicolor" is a icon theme and it's physically present (in
$prefix/xfce4dir/share/icons/). It's not logical that I can't choose that icon
theme and yes the others in the same directory
($prefix/xfce4dir/share/icons/Rodent). At least formally, it's a bug.


Sorry if you think I'm a few tiresome, but I try that xfce were, still, great.

Thanks and regards,
Xan.

Bug #531

Reported by:
Xan
Reported on: 2004-11-24
Last modified on: 2009-07-15

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