[Solution/Bug] Thunar - Ugly default icons

pyther · 2010-03-23 15:56:18

I updated my icon cache using gtk-update-icon-cache -f -q /usr/share/icons/hicolor and now I have these ugly default page icons in thunar for certain mimetypes. The odd thing is that I don't get this behavior is pcmanfs or nautilus.

Example: http://pyther.net/a/icons.png

Solution: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 52#p739652

Last edited by pyther (2010-04-08 17:22:18)

loafer · 2010-03-23 16:04:44

You may need to tell thunar which icons to use in .gtkrc-2.0

edit: there's an explanation here:

http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentat … nd_folders

Although it doesn't explain why it just started happening.

Last edited by loafer (2010-03-23 16:08:49)

pyther · 2010-03-23 16:24:57

It is taking most of the theme, but for some reason it won't apply the whole theme :-/

pyther@tux: cat .gtkrc-2.0                                                    ~
# DO NOT EDIT!  This file will be overwritten by LXAppearance.
# Any customization should be done in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine

gtk-theme-name="MurrinaGilouche"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Baku"
gtk-font-name="Bitstream Vera Sans 9"
gtk-toolbar-style=0
include "/home/pyther/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"

EDIT: if I change the icon theme, the icons all change with the exceptions of the ones that are ugly

Last edited by pyther (2010-03-23 16:25:39)

pyther · 2010-03-24 03:11:42

This seems to affect the whole system (other users). I just find it bizarre it is isolated to thunar.

pyther · 2010-03-24 03:50:25

Targets (41): abiword-2.8.2-2  hicolor-icon-theme-0.11-1  qt-4.6.2-2  arora-0.10.2-3  brasero-2.28.3-2  chromium-5.0.307.11-1  cups-1.4.2-3  
              deluge-1.2.2-1  gnome-panel-2.28.0-2  empathy-2.28.2-1  gnome-icon-theme-2.28.0-1  eog-2.28.2-2  evince-2.28.2-1  exo-0.3.106-1  
              file-roller-2.28.2-1  openjdk6-6.b17_1.7.1-1  frostwire-4.20.3-2  gconf-editor-2.28.0-1  gimp-2.6.8-3  gnome-disk-utility-2.28.1-1  
              gnome-games-2.28.2-1  gnome-media-2.28.5-1  gnome-mplayer-0.9.9.2-1  gthumb-2.10.11-3  handbrake-0.9.4-1  kdelibs-4.4.1-1  
              oxygen-icons-4.4.1-1  kdebase-runtime-4.4.1-2  nautilus-2.28.4-1  nitrogen-1.5.1-1  notification-daemon-0.4.0-4  openoffice-base-3.2.0-1  
              phonon-xine-4.4.0-1  pidgin-2.6.6-1  thunar-1.0.1-5  tomboy-1.1.0-1  transmission-gtk-1.92-1  vlc-1.0.5-5  wireshark-1.2.6-2  
              xcursor-themes-1.0.2-1  xine-ui-0.99.5-6

Reinstalled all of those packages as they had files in /usr/share/icons and one of them did the trick

droog · 2010-03-24 04:55:58

Yeah I had this problem with an icon theme that relied on part of gnome-icon-theme for the text icons and a few others, the rest of the icons worked though. I think it was gnome-colors icons that I was using.

dptkby · 2010-03-24 07:00:09

droog wrote:

Yeah I had this problem with an icon theme that relied on part of gnome-icon-theme for the text icons and a few others, the rest of the icons worked though. I think it was gnome-colors icons that I was using.

I can confirm that, had the same problem with gnome-colors for a while.

pyther · 2010-04-01 16:29:38

*bump* I'm having this problem again, icons in pcmanfm and nautilus are fine, but I'm missing some in thunar

Revolt · 2010-04-02 12:24:34

Yeah me too

Revolt · 2010-04-03 23:22:47

Managed to "fix" the ugly icons problem by downgrading gnome-icon-theme (and gnome-system-monitor and gtkhtml because of deps). It probably has something to do with the new gnome-icon-theme missing svgs and probably a hell lot of other icons, namely, mimetypes.

pyther · 2010-04-03 23:25:11

Maybe but the issue is non-existent in pcmanfm or nautilus.

Meyithi · 2010-04-03 23:27:29

Revolt wrote:

Managed to "fix" the ugly icons problem by downgrading gnome-icon-theme (and gnome-system-monitor and gtkhtml because of deps). It probably has something to do with the new gnome-icon-theme missing svgs and probably a hell lot of other icons, namely, mimetypes.

Yup, pretty much all icon theme rely on gnome-icon-theme to fill in the gaps - my Thunar has been uglified as well thanks to this.

pyther · 2010-04-03 23:40:30

But the question remains, why just in thunar?

fifafrazer · 2010-04-04 00:30:46

I fixed my "Neu" theme with:

cd /usr/share/icons/Neu/scalable/mimetypes
sudo ln -s binary.svg gnome-mime-application.svg
sudo ln -s binary.svg mime-application.svg

Revolt · 2010-04-04 00:57:48

pyther wrote:

But the question remains, why just in thunar?

I don't know. I found out that pcmanfm2 also warned about inexistent icons but it must have some kind of smart fallback implemented. On the other hand, thunar, when it doesn't find the required icon(s), falls back to that ugly thingie.

ConnorBehan · 2010-04-04 02:47:23

+1

IgnorePkg = v86d dhcpcd kernel26 kernel26-firmware xorg-server xf86-video-r128 xf86-video-fbdev xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard mesa libgl ati-dri r128-dri libdrm libgnome ghostscript gnome-icon-theme

To be fair, some of those may be coming off if my monitor ever gets out of repairs and I get to try KMS again.

pyther · 2010-04-08 17:18:34

Alright I nailed the problem. Thunar uses the following two icons (gnome-fs-regular and application-octet-stream) as fallback icons when it can't find another icons. These icons were removed in gnome-icon-theme 2.30. Therefore, we get the ugly page icons.

Two solutions:
1) Create one of the two icons in /usr/share/icons/gnome/[size]/mimetypes
2) Patch thunar to use a different icon

--- Thunar-1.0.1/thunar-vfs/thunar-vfs-mime-info.c.orig    2010-04-08 12:08:40.590462587 -0400
+++ Thunar-1.0.1/thunar-vfs/thunar-vfs-mime-info.c    2010-04-08 12:09:11.200561414 -0400
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static const struct
 };
 
 /* first fallback gnome icon name */
-static const gchar GNOME_FS_REGULAR[] = "gnome-fs-regular";
+static const gchar GNOME_FS_REGULAR[] = "text-x-generic";
 
 /* second fallback gnome icon name */
 static const gchar GNOME_MIME_APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM[] = "gnome-mime-application-octet-stream"

The outcome of this bug report https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615194 will determine which solution is the best. Where these two icon intentionally removed? If so patch thunar, otherwise update gnome-icon-theme.

ConnorBehan · 2010-04-09 01:27:47

It was probably intentional. Plus the barcode (stock_id) was also removed.

Revolt · 2010-04-17 13:25:13

Upstream fix in gnome-icon-theme should revert things back to normal: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon- … afd000a5e9

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