On 15/01/16 23:56, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:22:14 +0000 Peter Flynn <[email protected]> said: [...] >> I think this probably needs documenting. Did you mean that to add an >> icon to an icon-less application in the IBar, I should first create some >> file? > > no - i was talking about the "cannot write to file in /usr/share/..." thing.
OK, I just didn't understand why an action triggered by an end-user (replacing/adding an icon) would want to write to a system directory. > it displays a LISt of desktop files. ll it is is a single file in a dir that > lists desktop file names. e "finds them" in the search path for desktop files. > wherever they happen to be. That makes sense. > no - ICON theme. not theme. settings -> look -> application theme -> icons OK, found it. Not a place I would have thought to look :-) > there is - as above. the problem is e has a default configured theme that you > don't have installed It was set to GNOME. > thus it's ending up not finding icons. select one and you'll be fine. Yep, all done now. Very many thanks. The problem was I had expected e17 to start up with a theme that had icons in the right places. Plus "application themes" doesn't align with (IMHO) user expectations: anyone going to look to configure icons is going to expect a menu entry called Icons much higher in the hierarchy. > because of the XDG theme spec. if the configured theme does not exist - we > can't use its configured fallbacks. an icon theme specifies what theme(s) to > fall back on to next if it doesnt contain an icon for that. if the theme is > not > there there is no data to read for a fallback. Yep, makes sense, except that a default theme should then be a dependency for e17, so that the presence of the icons-of-last-resort should be guaranteed. Thanks very much. I wonder when a more recent e will become available for Ubuntu...anyone know? Not a problem, e17 has been very stable so far. ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
