gnome icon issue (solved, but wondering what happened)

[airyk]

After doing a world emerge a couple weeks back, I noticed that some of my icons were missing in evolution and rhythmbox. (Unfortunately I can't remember exactly what was upgraded during the emerge)

re-emerging the two packages didn't fix it.

I went into /use/share/rhythmbox/icons and noticed that there wasn't a "gnome" folder in there, just "hicolor." So I created a symlink to hicolor called "gnome," and that has fixed the problem. Did the same thing for evolution, and that worked as well.

So now I'm just wondering what caused that to happen, and if there is a better (more correct) way to fix this problem...

thanks

[womp]

omg you are a champ, this has been bothering me for weeks! thank you

[Rainbow goblin]

For me this is not work