Icon themes and GTK+ themes are separate. "hicolor" is defined as the
default fallback if an application can't find any other theme in the icon
theme specification:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#id3013799


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:08 AM, John Emmas <john...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks for the advice, guys.  I should be able to try your suggestions
> either today or tomorrow.
>
> However, on a less obvious note....  the product I'm working on (Ardour)
> does already use its own theme which (I think) gets handled by Clearlooks.
>  I hope it's not a dumb question - but if Ardour and Clearlooks are already
> handling theming, why would I also need a GTK+ theme, such as the "hicolor"
> theme which it can't find??
>
> I don't mind adding the hicolor theme like you suggested but I don't quite
> understand why it's needed.
>
> John
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