Bug#251335: more info..

[Justin A]

For me, if I just start nautilus outside of gnome, I get the empty
icons, once I run  /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
everything works fine...

ii  gnome-icon-the 1.2.1-2        GNOME Desktop icon theme
...

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not.. I had gnome-settings-daemon in
.xsession, and just fixed it to have the new full path, which should fix
future X sessions.

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-Justin