Well, the problem of the selection of the theme is not that easy. I have themes adwaita, tango, oxygen installed.
* when I open the prefs, adwaita is highlighted, but apparently not active, as I can get file icons after switching to another theme and then back. I originally thought the initial setup was "use de-provided", but in fact it seems to be "elementary". This is probably what should be the first recommended option, but it seems to be only available in experimental. To which we can add a couple more items: * unavailable default theme wrongly handled in GUI * if I select a theme it only shows icons for files, but none in toolbar, until I restart the program, after which I can switch and the icons get updated * razor-qt has a default theme selection, but it seems ignored - it may be a razor-qt bug, though * cannot select "de-provided" theme in GUI, even removing the config file gets me black to all-blank icons without a warning that something is wrong * oxygen is listed twice in the list (one appears as "default.kde4" in the config) You may want to forward this list of issues upstream, I don't think it's really worth to open new bug in Debian for all of them :) Best regards, Yann