On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 02:12:46PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Paul Rogers wrote: > > I'm confused (again) about desktop themes now. I made the XFCE desktop. > > The icon for the Run command is "broken", just a red "x". It wants gtk- > > execute. I had installed the Tango icons. Nothing has installed gtk- > > execute[.png]. I found traces that an older system had it from > > Clearlooks. I hadn't installed gtk-engines, so I tried installing that. > > I thought they would come with or generate the theme icons. I still > > don't have it. > > > > 1) I suppose maybe there's a better/different icon set that I should > > have instead/besides Tango? Any better recommendations? I haven't > > noticed anything specific in the book. > > > > 2) Are the gtk-engines some part of the solution to this problem? What > > are these engines for? Is one supposed to use them somehow to get > > all the icons? > > > > (I know I could go get that icon a put it in pixmaps or somewhere, but > > I think it should have come from something I should have done > > installing BLFS.) > > I generally install all the icons in BLFS. Doing a search, I have in > /usr/share: > > ./icons/gnome/32x32/actions/gtk-execute.png > ./icons/gnome/256x256/actions/gtk-execute.png > ./icons/gnome/22x22/actions/gtk-execute.png > ./icons/gnome/16x16/actions/gtk-execute.png > ./icons/gnome/48x48/actions/gtk-execute.png > ./icons/gnome/24x24/actions/gtk-execute.png > ./icons/breeze-dark/actions/16/gtk-execute.svg > ./icons/breeze-dark/actions/22/gtk-execute.svg > ./icons/breeze-dark/actions/24/gtk-execute.svg > ./icons/breeze/actions/16/gtk-execute.svg > ./icons/breeze/actions/22/gtk-execute.svg > ./icons/breeze/actions/24/gtk-execute.svg > > I'm really not sure how the proper icon is chosen in the XFCE main menu. I > do know that it is themes related, but the inter-relation between themes and > icons and environments is somewhat of a mystery to me too. > I cannot solve that mystery, but in case it is not obvious, the gnome version comes from gnome-icon-theme. And that will be a lot easier to install than breeze icons.
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