Before I go tracking down which peice of Gnome this problem is really about and filing bug reports I was hoping I could get some feedback here first.
If you upgrade your distribution and icons you were using previously are no longer available Gnome (at least Gnome 2.10 and many previous versions) will warn you seperately for each missing icon. This results in several seperate warnings all telling me pretty much the same thing. What is even more annoying is that it will continue to warn you each and every time you login until you pick a new icon for the launchers/shortcuts. Perhaps I should be blaming distributions for not keeping bigger sets of icons around. Perhaps I should give up and keep a copy of the icons I want to use in my homedirectory. (And while I'm at it what is with Mozilla using a big M for an Icon? Using text as an icon is goofy, pointless, and obviously wrong.) I am however thankful for the generic green apple, red apple, icons still included in Gnome which at least gives me some spare generic icons I can work with. I guess what I'd like for Gnome to do would be to display the stock missing icon image instead of that old foot icon from Gnome 1.4 and the abscence of an icon should be obvious enough and not require a warning, and certainly not require Strangely I've ended up with a configuration which doesn't include an icon for the show desktop applet and the applet doesn't include a way to configure the icon like the way normal shortcuts do (I guess I could call it an annoying inconsistency that the panel objects are not more alike). Unhappy Ubunut* (formerly miserble Mandrake) Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
