On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:50:03 +0200, Hung Dang wrote about [gentoo-user]
Icon loading problem after updating for GNOME based application:

>Hi all,
>After updating my system I find out that some gnome based applications
>have problem with png images. For example, I got this message when
>trying to open stadict
>"Can not load image. Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
>'/usr/share/pixmaps/stardict.png'" and this problem happened to at
>least two of my machines.
>Does anyone know what is going on with my system?

Open a root console and cd to /etc/env.d. Edit file 30xdg-data-local
and look for a line like:

XDG_DATA_DIRS='/usr/local/share'

and change it to:

XDG_DATA_DIRS='usr/local/share:/usr/share'

The do env-update, logout and login again.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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