bug with gtk2

[Jason W]

I rebuilt rhythmox, installed to ram/system, installed the gnome icon stuff, shared mime info, compiled and installed hicolor icons, updated icon cache, and a few other things.  The icon issue is also mentioned here:

http://forums.droplinegnome.org/viewtopic.php?t=5619

and here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=26505

Though none of the fixes seemed to work.  For now, it seems rhythmbox specific, though t2 linux uses rhythmbox and gtk 2.18.3 with no special setup, but more dependencies.

[Juanito]

yeah - I'd seen those - at least google gets the same results in different parts of the world 

if the issue only shows up on rhythmbox, let's drop it - it looks more like a rhythmbox problem.

[jls]

I had problems with tucan and svg, infact I had 2 change the images to png, and so change also the python code

[Jason W]

With an added dependency, svg icons in tucan and rhythmbox work fine with gtk 2.18.

I will post it shortly, libgsf, it seems pygtk specific, and can be added to relevant extensions.

[Jason W]

I see libgsf is in the repo.  By build has the python and gnome stuff and dependencies are many.  I will see how the libgsf works for this in the repo.

[Jason W]

Actually, I am using rhythmbox and tucan complete with icons, with only existing extensions installed from the repo.  I did a "make install" on libgsf and a reboot erased it, but the icons still work.

So with a missing dependency, icons work.  I won't try to find which dep now as there are several extensions to post and little time, but at least the support is there.

[Jason W]

Actually it is under Xfce that tucan and rhytmbox icons work.  Icons don't work when the same set of extensions is used with flwm or other WM that does not set gnome themes.  So use of gnome icons/themes is a workaround.

[Juanito]

Icons don't work when the same set of extensions is used with flwm or other WM that does not set gnome themes.  So use of gnome icons/themes is a workaround.

I'm not exactly sure what is meant by that - could you expain the workaround further?

[Juanito]

After re-compiling libgsf, I see it makes a libgsf-gnome if you have all the deps loaded - using flwm, it still does not produce the missing rhythmbox icons. Odd that I get "play", "previous" and "next", but not "repeat", "shuffle" and "browse". See attached.

Note that this is with gtk2_prefs, gtk-engines, gnome-icon-themes, hicolor-icon-themes, icon-naming-tools and shared-mime-info loaded (and with the clearlooks theme installed).

I guess it should be possible to have an extension libgsf-gnome, which depends on libgsf as long as I use the same version of the libgsf package?

[Juanito]

ha - got it - if I link hicolor -> gnome in /usr/local/share/icons then I get all of the icons in rhythmbox.

I don't know much about gtk2, but I guess there must be setting for this somewhere - .gtkrc maybe?

[bmarkus]

This is my /home/tc/.gtkrc-2.0 file:

gtk-icon-theme-name="gnome"

Changing "gnome" to "hicolor" may work, I did't try.

[Juanito]

For interests sake (or not...), here's what I found with rhythmbox


load gnome-icon-utils
.gtkrc-2.0 file: gtk-icon-theme-name="gnome"

no icons at all

.gtkrc-2.0 file: gtk-icon-theme-name="hicolor"

play, previous, next OK - no repeat, shuffle, browse

load shared-mime-info
.gtkrc-2.0 file: gtk-icon-theme-name="hicolor"
play, previous, next OK - no repeat, shuffle, browse

.gtkrc-2.0 file: gtk-icon-theme-name="gnome"
play, previous, next, repeat, shuffle, browse OK

Even with this, some of the small icons are missing - to get all icons, delete /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor and link hicolor -> gnome

[Jason W]

Since it appears that rhythmbox and a few other apps were caught by surprise with the latest gtk changes, hopefully they will have worked things out and be in sync with the latest gtk in their next release.  Before we change much in the icon-theme or other extensions, perhaps we should see what the next releases of the affected apps bring.

[bmarkus]

I struggled a lot with missing icons when ported Xfce4 to TC. Simply I forgot it working on LXDE and of course the problem returned hicolor icons are not displayed.

Reason is missing index.theme in /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor

Xfce4base.tczl installs it if missing. It is just 22k and do not need to create dinamycally. I will add it to LXDE. However it is not the bussieness of the application, I think (similar to ~/gtkrc-2.0) just a hacking. I do not know, what would be the best solution to add it.

For testing, just extract it from Xfce4base.tczl and check your missing icons.

For details see http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html

[Jason W]

The hicolor theme seems to be part of the gnome-media extension.  Not sure if it should be there or it's own extension as it is a source unto itself.  Either way, that index file should be created and place in the extension that contains the hicolor icons, using the gtk-update-icon-cache command.

EDIT:  It seems only the relevant icons from gnome-media are in the hicolor directory.  Perhaps a hicolor icon extension will fix the issue.