On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:05:20 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
<ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:19:40 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com>
> said:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> yes there is. it's not been removed or changed since e17 release.
> settings -> look -> application theme -> icons

Oops, so it is to.  Now I have icons again.  B-)

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