[gentoo-user] Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[gentoo-user] Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[Bob Young]

This is how Evolution displays if I log in under KDE or Gnome:

http://www.debug1.com/

Why the difference, and how can I get it to display correctly under KDE?

TIA
Bob Young

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Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[Richard Fish]

On 6/10/06, Bob Young <RKY@sonic.net> wrote:
>
> This is how Evolution displays if I log in under KDE or Gnome:
>
> http://www.debug1.com/
>
> Why the difference, and how can I get it to display correctly under KDE?

I get the same thing, it started with the last evolution update.

I have no solution yet, but I am planning to spend some more time on
it tomorrow...

-Richard
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[gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[Peter]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:47:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:

> On 6/10/06, Bob Young <RKY@sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>> This is how Evolution displays if I log in under KDE or Gnome:
>>
>> http://www.debug1.com/
>>
>> Why the difference, and how can I get it to display correctly under KDE?
> 
> I get the same thing, it started with the last evolution update.
> 
> I have no solution yet, but I am planning to spend some more time on it
> tomorrow...
> 
> -Richard

evo uses gnome stock icons. These icons are not searched for by kde. It
shouldn't be an issue. Maybe there's a kde config for icon search path.
Look under /usr/share/icons and see if you can locate it. If so, you can
link to them in ~/.local/share. Sorry I can't be more specific.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[Keith Kastorff]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 18:58 -0400, Peter wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:47:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> 
> > On 6/10/06, Bob Young <RKY@sonic.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> This is how Evolution displays if I log in under KDE or Gnome:
> >>
> >> http://www.debug1.com/
> >>
> >> Why the difference, and how can I get it to display correctly under KDE?
> > 
> > I get the same thing, it started with the last evolution update.
> > 
> > I have no solution yet, but I am planning to spend some more time on it
> > tomorrow...
> > 
> > -Richard
> 
> evo uses gnome stock icons. These icons are not searched for by kde. It
> shouldn't be an issue. Maybe there's a kde config for icon search path.
> Look under /usr/share/icons and see if you can locate it. If so, you can
> link to them in ~/.local/share. Sorry I can't be more specific.
> 
> -- 
> Peter
> 
> 

Run the gnome-settings-daemon...it will fix it, and you'll see your
Gnome theming under KDE too.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[Richard Fish]

On 6/10/06, Keith Kastorff <kastorff@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Run the gnome-settings-daemon...it will fix it, and you'll see your
> Gnome theming under KDE too.

Keith, thanks for the pointer.

<rant>
WTF!  Now I have to pull in a bunch of other gnome shit just to run
evo.  And it's not just that it has to be installed, now I have to
start gnome-setings-daemon any time I want to run evo and see icons.

That wouldn't be so bad, but gnome-settings-daemon screws up my fonts
and mouse acceleration settings from KDE.  Every application started
after running gnome-settings-daemon uses different font sizes.

Yeah, I could probably start a gnome session to configure things to my
liking, but what happens when I change my mind on something?  Now I
have to try and keep two different desktop configurations in sync...

For the last several years Gnome and KDE have been moving towards
playing nicely together, allowing users to mix-and-match applications
at will.  This dependancy on gnome-settings-daemon, and it's inability
to play nicely with KDE, is a HUGE step backwards IMO.

Looks like I'll be masking >=evolution-2.6.0....
</rant>

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241

-Richard
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[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[Peter]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:44:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:

> On 6/10/06, Keith Kastorff <kastorff@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Run the gnome-settings-daemon...it will fix it, and you'll see your
>> Gnome theming under KDE too.
> 
> Keith, thanks for the pointer.
> 
> <rant>
> WTF!  Now I have to pull in a bunch of other gnome shit just to run evo. 
> And it's not just that it has to be installed, now I have to start
> gnome-setings-daemon any time I want to run evo and see icons.

I do not run gsd in order to view evo icons ok. I am running 2.6.1 though
and just have minimal gnome libraries. If you're running 2.4, try
upgrading. Of course, I'm not running kde either. You may also check your
xdg files and see what paths are included for icons.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[Paul Varner]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> Looks like I'll be masking >=evolution-2.6.0....
> </rant>
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241

Masking the following fixed it for me

=x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2

I haven't had the time to investigate further or file a bug report.

Regards,
Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[Richard Fish]

On 6/13/06, Paul Varner <fuzzyray@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> > Looks like I'll be masking >=evolution-2.6.0....
> > </rant>
> >
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241
>
> Masking the following fixed it for me
>
> =x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2
>
> I haven't had the time to investigate further or file a bug report.

Ok, I've found a fix for this.  It looks like we need to set
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = "gnome" in a  gtkrc file.

Assuming you have KDE setup to export settings to gtk/gnome apps, it
will overwrite your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, and also add a line to your
~/.bashrc to make sure it is used by gtk.  Your ~/.bashrc probably
contains:

# This line was appended by KDE
# Make sure our customised gtkrc file is loaded.
export GTK2_RC_FILES=$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0

If you change this line, or the .gtkrc-2.0 file, the KDE control
center may overwrite the changes.  So my fix is to change ~/.bashrc to
contain:

----
# This line was appended by KDE
# Make sure our customised gtkrc file is loaded.
export GTK2_RC_FILES=$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0

# and also use my personal .gtkrc file...
export GTK2_RC_FILES="${GTK2_RC_FILES}:$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0-rjf"
----

Then .gtkrc-2.0-rjf contains only:
----
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = "gnome"
----

This allows all evolution icons to be found.

Of course, I had to dig through the source to figure out the fix, but
once I knew the solution, finding the relevant web pointers was easy!
See:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330061
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-February/msg00425.html

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

[Paul Varner]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Paul Varner <fuzzyray@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> > > Looks like I'll be masking >=evolution-2.6.0....
> > > </rant>
> > >
> > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241
> >
> > Masking the following fixed it for me
> >
> > =x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2
> >
> > I haven't had the time to investigate further or file a bug report.
> 
> Ok, I've found a fix for this.  It looks like we need to set
> gtk-fallback-icon-theme = "gnome" in a  gtkrc file.

<snip setting up a local .gtkrc file>

Thanks for doing the research on this.

I just wanted to note that I was unable to get it to work with a
local .gtkrc file and launching from the KDE menu.  For me I ended up
having to create /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc containing the correct setting.

Regards,
Paul
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