Hello world,
as you may already have noticed there are a lot of missing icons in the Xfce desktop on Fedora 14.
The reason is that we are using gnome-icon-theme by default and it switched to the 'new' XDG icon naming spec [1] a while back. In Fedora 13 GNOME had a lot of missing icons too and therefor the icon theme included a lot of symlinks for backwards compatibility. These were now removed.
We feel that following the XDG naming spec is the only way to go, otherwise you cannot choose your icon theme freely but are stuck with the outdated xfce4-icon-theme (no update since Xfce 4.4.something).
In order to move to the new icon spec we need your help. Please help us to finding missing icons. So far we have identified: * Thunar and xfce4-places-plugin lack the 'Trash' icons, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647734 An update is available at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/Thunar-1.0.2-4.fc14 * thunar-volman, both in the menu ('Removable Drives and Media') and the preferences dialog. Update at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/thunar-volman-0.3.80-5.fc14 * xfce4-panel in the "Add new launcher" dialog * Thunar: * Main menu -> Preferences -> File manager * Thunar's Copy/Move progress dialog * Lots of mime types missing * xfdesktop: Left click on an image -> "Set as wallpaper"
Please report any missing icons you spot in F14 Xfce. Use the mailing lists or Bugzilla at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650504
Sorry for the inconvenience, Christoph
[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.ht...
Am Sonntag, den 07.11.2010, 13:26 +0100 schrieb Christoph Wickert:
Hello world,
as you may already have noticed there are a lot of missing icons in the Xfce desktop on Fedora 14.
The reason is that we are using gnome-icon-theme by default and it switched to the 'new' XDG icon naming spec [1] a while back. In Fedora 13 GNOME had a lot of missing icons too and therefor the icon theme included a lot of symlinks for backwards compatibility. These were now removed.
Instead of fixing all packages individually, we suggest you install the gnome-icon-theme-legacy package to get the symlinks back. I have just pushed an Update for libxfcegui4 that will pull in the additional package.
If you see any missing icons in the meantime, please report them to us. We want to help Xfce upstream to fix everything in time for Xfce 4.8, which will be included in Fedora 15.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Regards, Christoph