missing icons in gnome?

sebbothebutcher · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 52 Location: Vienna

hi there!

today, after turning on my computer, i noticed, that some icons were missing...
if i click on the "gnome foot" (where it says applications), the menu entry settings (and most of its subentries) are displayed as folders and some don't have an icon at all... gnome complained about a missing icon file for the system-monitor too...

is there any way to re-emerge these icons, or does anybody know a solution?

thanks in advance

Apopatos · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 512 Location: Hellas

Did you update your gnome-menus recently?
Try another icon theme from art.gnome.org .

psylence · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:26 am Post subject:

Desktop -> Preferences -> Theme... Try toggling the icon theme around and back to what you had it... I've had it get confused as well.

sylware

Indeed... gnome-panel does not fully follow the freedesktop standard about how to locate icons (gnome-panel 2.10 does not look in the "hicolor/apps" theme directory as an ultimate try to locate an icon). It may be related to your pb... check where you icons are located (don't forget to check out access rights too).

nodh · n00b Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 42 Location: Austria

sylware:
Where does Gnome look for icons? Can I tell Gnome to look somewhere specific? And were should all Icons be placed?

sylware · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject: freedesktop "standard".

Check the freedesktop web site where you will be able to find the documentation about the icon theme. Inside you'll find where and how gnome-panel should look for icons.
Seems that gnome-panel forgets to look in the hicolor theme apps directory as at a last try.

Trev · n00b Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Posts: 9

I just built a new system wih Gnome 2.10 and was missing several icons (OOO, gconf). Even though I just emerged these to install the system, the solution was to emerge them again.

Solution:

emerge gnome-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme

Hope this helps

sylware · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject: Re: Possible solution

sylware · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

My apologies... rebooted, checked the right apps... working now... :lol:

sylware · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject: DAMN!

sylware · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:03 am Post subject: Now I feel stupid...

Did some debugging... and finally here is the explanation: screwed symbolic links in my icon theme. Indeed, a screwed icon symbolic link does NOT imply a default theme fallback... then no icon is displayed...

ahah... :oops:

nodh · n00b Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 42 Location: Austria

The icontheme "gperfection2" do it quite well for me, I'm not missing any icons.

bfdi533 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 133

sylware · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: Terminal.

Doing a long listing of files of a directory using a proper terminal, shows the faulty symlinks with different colors.
With such a terminal, just do "ls -l -R" at the top of you theme directory tree. It will recurse through the directory tree, listing all files and showing with proper colors the faulty symlinks.

bfdi533 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 133

I can certainly manage that but I have not been able to locate the theme directory. What is the proper directory for the themes to be stored in?

sylware · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: Location

System icon themes are in /usr/share/icons
User icon themes are in .icons in your home directory.

VStrider · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:05 am Post subject:

Another way to set an icon to a gnome menu entry, is to go to /usr/share/applications and find the menu entry you want to change. Open it with a text editor and edit the Icon property to point to an icon of your choice. Voila