On Friday 18 Jan 2013 20:10:01 Oliver Arnold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to change the icon for an application (firefox).
> So I open the "edit icon" dialog and choose an icon then press apply.
> I then get two message boxes with the title "Error creating directory",
> the first one shows:
> "Failed to create dirctory. /usr/local/share/icons. Check that you have
> correct permissions set",
> the second one shows the same message only for the directory
> "/usr/share/enlightenment/icons".
>
> When I close the "edit icon" dialog the selected icon is not saved.
>
> I am assuming that e17 is trying to create a file in these directories
> to save information about the icon, but shouldn't that be saved in a
> subfolder of the user's home folder?
>
> I use arch-linux and have installed the latest e17-package available in
> the repos, the build date says: Sa 22 Dez 2012 16:54:20 CET.
>
> Any idea?
Only to state the obvious that you do not (and should not) have access rights
to create directories in /usr/local/share or /usr/share/enlightenment, because
both are owned by root.
I am getting the same error. In particular, of all applications the vlc
window has no icon. When I try to edit the icon the Desktop Entry Editor
shows:
Icon: vlc
and an icon is shown in there, but not displayed on the window border.
Clicking on this icon takes me to ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor, which is a
symlink I have to /usr/share/icons/hicolor:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 michael michael 24 Dec 16 2010 hicolor ->
/usr/share/icons/hicolor
Trying to change the icon from the choices in there fails with the same error
like yours. I can't recall why I have created the symlink in my
~/.local/share/icons or if it was created by some application. The error does
not make sense to me because we are not trying to *write* in /usr, only to
read. I would have thought that the icon path ought to be saved in ~/.e/e/
somewhere.
--
Regards,
Mick
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