On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:51:51 +0900
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:29:40 +0000 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie>
> said:
> 
> > On 14/01/16 21:10, Larry Wyble wrote:  
> > > 
> > > When I right click Ibar and then "new Icon" and go through the
> > > motions of creating a new icon, it never appears on the Ibar.
> > > When I click apply and then close it there's nothing. I'v tried
> > > it several times and nothing.  
> > 
> > I always get error messages about not having write access to
> > /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/enlightenment/icons when I add an
> > icon to an Ibar application (several of them are defective as they
> > have no icon).
> > 
> > Of course, I never remember this bug, so the first time this
> > happens on a new install, I just chown myself those directories for
> > a few minutes while I fix the missing icons. And of course the
> > first one I fix has to be re-done, because the error message
> > appears *after* e17 tried to write the icon (and failed :-)
> > 
> > Something is wrong in the assumptions somewhere, as end-users would
> > not normally have write access to those directories, so it's
> > invalid that e17 would expect to be able to write into them.  
> 
> the problem is youa re editing a SYSTEM SUPPLIED desktop file. e is
> expecting that to edit..l you edit one that belongs to you (that you
> created). thus it is trying to mess with system paths not in $HOME.
> yes - it likely should duplicate the desktop file into $HOME THEN
> edit. but it doesn't.

So, dude.. (yes I said dude, I'm 66 years old and I said dude, lol)
dude, is there a work around?  :)


> 
> > Why are so many apps missing icons? Terminal is the most
> > obvious...  
> 
> you havent selected an icon theme? the one selected is invalid or not
> there? configure an icon theme.
> 
> > This is under Ubuntu 15.04 and 15.10, but it does htis under 14* as
> > well.
> > 
> > ///Peter
> > 
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