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

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

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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