Bug#258633: nautilus: can't set custom icons

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 21:12:00 +0200, Cristiano De Michele wrote:
> after some upgrade some icons on my desktop
> (epiphany,synaptic,mozilla.firefox desktop links) appear as plain text
> icons (but I can't launch those applications clicking on such icons) and I
> can't change such icons selecting custom ones because select icons window
> show me no icon in /usr/share/pixmaps/, though they are all there (I
> checked)...

This could be due to http://bugs.debian.org/258564 . Does the problem
persist after you run
	update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
as root and restart your nautilus and/or GNOME session?

Ray
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