Hi, actually right now, using gnome-settings-daemon is acceptable because it gives me some nice features (like support of ICC profiles, etc.). But I am wondering if there is not a way to at least tell the user about these kind of tools. Not all users know all Freedesktop specifications. ;-)
For instance, I was certain for days that there was something broken with cairo-dock when I saw all these broken icons. And I stumbled upon gnome-settings-daemon completely by chance by seeing this command commented out in a default openbox autostart script. I tried to see what it did, and kept it in my own autostart only because I saw it got me back the support of ICC profiles. Then at the next restart, the icons were there! That was just chance after chance. A better way would be to be able to somehow tell the user who does not use one of the common desktops about common tools to still have features and a nice-looking UI. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Cairo- Dock Devs, which is subscribed to Cairo-Dock Core. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226925 Title: gnome-settings-daemon necessary to have icons Status in Cairo-Dock : Core: New Bug description: I was using cairo-dock in a bare openbox session (no GNOME/KDE) and many of the icons in various plug-ins were broken (ok so maybe that is a bug report which should go in cairo-dock-plug-ins then, but since it happened all over the place, I was unsure if this is not rather a core issue. For instance in the attached image, you can see that all icons in shortcuts are question-mark icons instead of usual partition/folder icons. In the Applications Menu plug-ins, they would be ugly red- crossed "no icon" icon. But if I run `gnome-settings-daemon &` in my autostart script *before* I run cairo-dock, then I have nice icons in shortcuts/Applications Menu (and even the application menu icon itself would change to the Mint icon for some reason). Why is that? Can't you run cairo-dock without some minimum of GNOME running (or KDE or other, I have not tried if it fixes the issue there) and have nice-looking icons? It would be nice to have a nice- looking system, even without any desktop environment running in background. :-) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-core/+bug/1226925/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
