This is a panel issue. No other part of the desktop does this that I know of.
-- dobey On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 22:34 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
