Bug#409789: gnome-panel: list of applets not updated after installation

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> Have you received my response?  I attach it for reference.

 Yes I did, but *my* response got lost on my side, sorry.

> > Remove /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache.  Debian does not ship
> > such caches; either it's a bug in another Debian package (grep
> > gtk-update-icon-cache /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst, dpkg -S
> > icon-theme.cache), or you used third party packages, or you installed
> > software from source in /usr/share/icons.
> I don't think I did anything like the above...

 The icon-theme.cache must have come one way or another on your system.
 Either it was in a package, or it was created by a package or a script.

 However, you can easily tell whether it was in a package with "dpkg -S
 icon-theme.cache" and whether it was created by a Debian package by
 grepping for gtk-update-icon-cache:

> $ grep gtk-update-icon-cache /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-accessibility-themes.postinst:        gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/$theme
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-themes.postinst:        gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/$theme

 These two are okay, since the caches are for *private* directories, and
 not for /usr/share/icons/hicolor.


 So, there's nothing more I can do to help you locate when the
 icon-theme.cache file was created; it's not a bug in the package you
 filed the bug against, and neither you nor me can find another package
 doing this.  I suggest you remove the file, and file a bug report
 against whatever creates the file the next time when you reproduce the
 problem.  I doubt this is in a Debian package, but I could be wrong.

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>