Bug#421353: libgtk2.0-0: missing icons in GNOME applications

[Loïc Minier]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > What is your theme outside of GNOME (i.e. before
> >  gnome-theme-manager runs)?
> Could you please tell me, how I can find this out?

 Hmm if you don't know, it probably means you're using the default
 theme, but you can check your ~/.gtkrc-2.0.

 Thinking about your bug report from the start again, it seems the
 situation is:
 - you're running a GNOME app (evolution) from a naked environment
 - evolution uses GNOME specific icons
 - evolution depends on gnome-icon-theme which provides these icons
 - the default Gtk icon theme does not have these icons
 - gnome-theme-manager sets a Gtk icon theme which provides these icons

 Which would explain why evolution has missing icons when you run it
 from your naked environment, and gets them back when you run
 gnome-theme-manager.

 In a way, this is a problem with the way you've setup your session: you
 wouldn't be surprized that a graphical application fails to start from
 a text console, in the same way an application not starting due to your
 theme not having the necessary icons should complain about it.


 One solution would be to switch the default icon theme to "gnome", but
 it would mess Gtk with GNOME, which should probably stay separate layers.

-- 
Loïc Minier