GTK Icons

[peddy]

Hey everyone

I am using the Nimbus theme on 64-bit Hardy. For some reason, mimetypes that I have set custom icons for (in this example .torrent files), the icons do not show correctly on my desktop.

However, they show (correctly) in "Open" dialogs as shown in the attached image. I do not mind messing around with theme settings and whatnot, if someone could please tell me with what to do, or with what is going on it, would be appreciated.


Cheers

Peddy

[peddy]

Its the same with Firefox downloads, the correct icon appears beside the download, and in the File Browser and my desktop, the icon is incorrect.

Any ideas?

[kurtpete]

Assuming you're running Gnome and haven't restarted since applying this theme, you may need to kill all instances of Nautilus (or restart). There's a good chance the icon on your desktop is a cached version.

[peddy]

thanks for the info. Yes, I have restarted numerous times and the problem persists.


edit: The Nimbus theme is based around the Tango icon theme.


happens only with the Tango theme

[peddy]

Fixed by changing /usr/share/icons/nimbus/index.theme to say inherits=glass-icons rather than inherits=Tango.

This makes the theme use the glass-icons (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Glass+Icons+Theme?content=32146) icon theme for any mimetypes which nimbus-icon-theme does not specify icons for (rather than Tango).

Its not really a full solution, but I like the glass-icons theme anyway.

Cheers

launchpad report here (https://bugs.launchpad.net/tango-icon-theme/+bug/73846)