Yum ate my ICONS

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 20:09:17 UTC 2011


On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:42:46 -0700, JW (John) wrote:

> On 10/14/2011 10:16 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:58:44 -0700
> > John Wendel  wrote:
> >
> >> I just used 'yum remove'  to remove Gnome3 from my box, since I'm
> >> using xfce. Seemed to work OK. But now "thundar" doesn't have any
> >> icons in its file display.  What do I need to install to get the
> >> icons back?
> > That would be "Thunar". ;)
> >
> > You likely want:
> > gnome-icon-theme-legacy
> >
> > Or you can go change your icon theme in your preferences, but the other
> > ones don't have 100% icon coverage, so you will have some missing
> > icons.
> >
> > kevin
> >
> >
> Thanks. I have the gnome-icon-theme-legacy package installed, yum didn't 
> remove it. Still no Thunar icons.

Have you kept /var/log/yum.log*? Check the list of "Erased" packages
for icon packages.

This is with a F-16 GNOME Shell default install:

$ rpm -qa|grep \\-icon|sort
fedora-icon-theme-1.0.0-11.fc15.noarch
gnome-icon-theme-3.2.0-1.fc16.noarch
gnome-icon-theme-extras-3.0.0-2.fc16.noarch
gnome-icon-theme-legacy-3.2.0-1.fc16.noarch
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic-3.2.0-1.fc16.noarch
hicolor-icon-theme-0.12-3.fc16.noarch

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