On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:56:45 -0500 mh <mhe...@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> On 03/01/2014 09:56 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 09:40:08 -0500 mh<mhe...@member.fsf.org>  said:
> >
> >> On 02/19/2014 06:10 PM, Florian Schaefer wrote:
> >>> On 19.02.2014 21:53, mh wrote:
> >>>> On 02/19/2014 01:46 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:38:53 +0900 Florian
> >>>>> Schaefer<list...@netego.de> said:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> OK, I think I figured out part of the mystery: My E is
> >>>>>> installed to /opt/e. Hence also the efreet dbus service files
> >>>>>> finished up in this location and my dbus was, of course, not
> >>>>>> picking up those files. Now I've symlinked them to a proper
> >>>>>> location, E can talk with Efreet, icon themes show up and most
> >>>>>> of my icons are back.
> >>>>> OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! aha!
> >>>> This sounds like it would fix my problem with missing icons as
> >>>> well. I'm not sure what to symlink where, but I'd like to give
> >>>> this a try.
> >>> Good if I was not the only one "stupid enough". ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, I symlinked org.enlightenment.Efreet.service and
> >>> org.enlightenment.Ethumb.service from my E installation directory
> >>> (subdir share/dbus-1/services) to /usr/share/dbus-1/services/.
> >>>
> >>> Good luck,
> >>> Florian
> >> I installed e1.9 from release tarballs yesterday, and efl had a
> >> message stating that since the install was not to /usr that I
> >> would need to add both of these symlinks as you mentioned Florian.
> >> Nice. All icons available, no problems with the install or running
> >> e1.9. Thanks to everyone!
> >>
> >> The e default install location has changed from /usr/local to /usr
> >> now?
> > nothing has changed. :)
> 
> Ah, found it. I meant efl, not e ;) In the configure.ac file, lines
> 4356 
> - 4372, in the efl v.1.9 stable release:
> 
>   if test "x$prefix" != "x/usr"; then
>    echo ""
>    echo 
> "#-------------------------------------------------------------------#"
>    echo "##==-- ALERT                          --==##"
>    echo 
> "#-------------------------------------------------------------------#"
>    echo ""
>    echo "  Your installation prefix is *NOT* /usr so this means you
> need" echo "to ensure some files are visible to dbus otherwise
> services cannot" echo "be started when needed. You will need to do
> the following:" echo ""
>    echo "  ln -s 
> $prefix/share/dbus-1/services/org.enlightenment.Ethumb.service 
> /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.enlightenment.Ethumb.service"
>    echo "  ln -s 
> $prefix/share/dbus-1/services/org.enlightenment.Efreet.service 
> /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.enlightenment.Efreet.service"
>    echo ""
>    echo "or add \"$prefix/share\" to \$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
>    echo ""
>    echo 
> "#-------------------------------------------------------------------#"
> fi
> 
> 
> This is different than the configure.ac in efl v.1.8.4 release. When
> I installed I installed to /opt/e and got this alert, which was
> certainly appreciated because with these symlinks I don't have any
> problems with missing icons.

In E 1.9 I added those symlinks and still some of my icons are
missing.  There does not seem to be a settings module to select icon
theme either, which I think I used in the past.  XDG_DATA_DIRS already
had the correct stuff in it.

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