On 1/20/07, Jari Rahkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > jmak kirjoitti: > > On 1/19/07, Jari Rahkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> [SNIP] > >> > >> Are you sure your current icon theme doesn't override the icons > >> installed by the packages? Tango, for example, provides symlinked > >> substitute icons for most of these, including the orage/xfcalendar icon > >> you mentioned, xfcalendar.(png|svg). Look in the 48x48/apps and > >> scalable/apps directories of your current theme and it's fallbacks to > >> see if they provide these icons. > >> > >> If all you want is to see your new icons in action after you've placed > >> them in hicolor, you can simply switch to the "rodent" icon theme > >> provided by Xfce (it should be available, at least if you're running > >> Xubuntu Edgy, don't know about Feisty) or hicolor so the default icons > >> will be picked up. And I tested, no need to restart xfce-mcs-manager, > >> just change the icon theme. > >> > > > > Jari, > > > > The icon locations are very inconsistent. The orage icon, for instance > > in the tango scalable folder. But I am unable to find the printer > > icon, which is a rodent style icon, completely outdated and > > stylistically speaking doesn't fit in with the the rest of the icons. > > That one we have to replace because it stick out so badly that hurts. > > I modified the tango printer icon to go with the other icons, now we > > just have to find where the original icon that we have to replace. > > There is one in the rodent directory, I replaced that icon thinking > > that this was the one the setting manager points to but nothing > > happened. After I went through all the directories searching for the > > original printer and the panel icons, but no luck. If anyone could > > help me to locate the source icons it would be great. > > I had a bit of success identifying the Panel manager icon and I > > already modified that one. Look at the attachments. This is the kind > > of panel icon I want in the setting manager as well. > > > > The other attachment goes in a separate mail because it keep bouncing. > > > > Jmak > > > > Hi Jozsef, > > > If you re-read my last mail (quoted at the top of this mail), you'll see > why the settings manager picks up icons from different themes. You're > using a theme that has identically named icons that override the > defaults in hicolor/rodent. Which is to be expected. What good are > different icon themes if they don't change your icons, right? :) > > You should probably just wait until a default icon theme is picked for > Xubuntu Feisty and provide your icons there. Take note that some of the > packages in Xfce 4.4.0 (which I gather will be released tomorrow) like > xfprint have changed their config plugin icon names (xfprint.svg -> > printer.svg) to ensure theme compatibility and none of them install > icons in rodent any more. So, as I said, it might be better to put off > fiddling with the icons until a default theme is picked and you're ready > to install Feisty for testing. > > > - - Jari > > > PS: If you want to see what a package installs into /usr/share/icons, > you could for example check the Installed Files tab of a package > properties dialog in Synaptic or alternatively run the command > > $ dpkg-query -L [package] | grep icons > > If you need to find the package that installs a specific icon, run > > $ dpkg-query -S [icon file path]
Thanks Jari, I think I wait with the icons as you said to see what changes come with feisty, and then I pick up the issue again. Jmak -- 2007 Calendar http://www.lulu.com/content/512622 http://jozmak.googlepages.com/ -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
