[Bug 170291] New: GNOME cannot find kile icon

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Oct 11 12:15:06 UTC 2005


Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 20:14 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>>Since I think this has come up a few times occasionally, to me it still
>>sounds like GNOME brokeness. What kind of icon caching concept is
>>this? If the cache file gets out-of-date and an icon is not found within
>>the cache, the desktop system doesn't search the file system? Huh? Or
>>maybe this is configurable in some place? Why should a KDE application
>>maintain a GTK icon theme cache file?  
> 
> 
> They don't have to. It would be enough if they actually followed the
> icon theme spec they claim to be using, and touched the toplevel theme
> directory when installing a new icon.

The toplevel theme directory being /usr/share/icons or 
/usr/share/icons/__theme__?

-- Rex




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