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new2arch

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Gnome upgrade - icon issues

So I performed a full gnome upgrade, and it seems I now cannot change my desktop icons properly. The only icon that changes is the 'computer' icon.
Not a biggie but I want cool desktop icons.

Also, installing new themes is not possible (via 'menu' -> 'preferences' -> 'appearance'), neither by pulling down the file from art.gnome or by pointing it to an already existing theme package on my system.

And I'm not sure how this can be related to the gnome upgrade but now my other partitions, not related to Arch, show up on my desktop which they previously didn't.
They could only be seen in Nautilus and this is the way I like it.

The folder and trashcan inherited the standard gnome style during the upgrade.

Luckily I did the upgrade on a test harddrive/machine, but ignoring a bunch of gnome packages in pacman.conf (on my laptop with Arch) was a pita. 'IgnoreGroup = gnome' was successful only to a certain degree.

Anyone else with similar icon related problems as the one I'm experiencing?

Last edited by new2arch (2008-04-06 20:02:00)

Martyr

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Re: Gnome upgrade - icon issues

Icons do have issues, haven't had the time yet to fiddle with them.

yorugua

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Re: Gnome upgrade - icon issues

I have the same problem, what I discovered is that if I use icons that are compatible with gnome 2.22 ,they work.
You'll find bunchs of them at http://www.gnome-look.org/

new2arch

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Re: Gnome upgrade - icon issues

I have the same problem, what I discovered is that if I use icons that are compatible with gnome 2.22 ,they work.
You'll find bunchs of them at http://www.gnome-look.org/

@Martyr - is this something common, problems that're usually associated with desktop/window manager upgrades?

@Yorugua - Tried some recent icon themes from gnome-look but no luck yet. I guess copying the icon files manually into /usr/share/icons will work but I haven't gotten to that stage yet.
On one of my other arch machine I tried to cheat the system by updating all gnome packages but ignoring the icon-theme and gnome-theme packages but that won't work either.

Last edited by new2arch (2008-04-07 06:57:21)

Mr Green

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Re: Gnome upgrade - icon issues

Mine went out after upgrade, but found that I had wrong windowborders set for my theme... just some app icons that have gone awol now ... but that no big deal

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new2arch

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Re: Gnome upgrade - icon issues

Mine went out after upgrade, but found that I had wrong windowborders set for my theme... just some app icons that have gone awol now ... but that no big deal

No big deal? Aesthetics are IMPORTANT! :-D

Martyr

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Re: Gnome upgrade - icon issues

No big deal? Aesthetics are IMPORTANT! :-D

Everything is vanity. ;-) Well, I can change icons without problems, I guess the naming-scheme has changed for some icons, not unusual.

Mr Green

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Re: Gnome upgrade - icon issues

yeah what he said! :-)

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