No epiphany icon in FC4 -- and it won't take one --

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

beartooth wrote:

>On a machine otherwise successfully upgraded from FC1 to FC4 (now that I
>have the proper yum.conf, thanks to this list), I am unable to put the
>proper icon onto the launcher for Epiphany 1.6.1 (upgraded from 1.0.8
>under FC1 -- where it did have the icon).
>
>epiphany.png is available from
>http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/ -- I got a copy, saved it
>to my home directory, and copied it from there as root into three or four
>other files.
>
>FC4 has at least five files with launcher icons :
>
>/usr/share/icons/*
>/usr/share/images/*
>/usr/share/emoticons/* (which has other things, too)
>/usr/share/epiphany/art (where epiphany.png oughtta be, no? It wasn't.
>/usr/share/pixmaps/*
>
>-- and various other folders have a few each, much like ~/epiphany/art.
>
>I copied the saved image into both /usr/share/icons and
>/usr/share/pixmaps, because I know the ones that show up when you
>right-click on a browser icon may come at least from those, and also into
>~/epiphany/art.
>
>(I haven't been able to guess how FC4 chooses where to offer icons from; I
>had to jump through hoops to get the Big Red Lizard onto Mozilla ...)
>
>Then I tried right-clicking on Properties for the current icon I had
>stopping the epiphany gap, and then on the icon. Sure enough, the array it
>showed me now included epiphany.png. It let me highlight it, and put it in
>the Properties box.
>
>BUT when I closed that, I got an error box saying "Failed to load image
>epiphany.png. Details: Icon not found." And sure enough, the browser
>drawer is showing the orange question mark again -- even though, when I
>open the Properties box by right-clicking on that, it shows *not* the
>mark, but epiphany.png!
>
>Aaarrrghghghghg.....
>
>  
>
Yes, and this does not happen exclussively with Epiphany. It pretty much 
happens when you have an icon "outside" the scope of your currently used 
icon theme (I know 'cause I use a custom one). Even though many 
applications icons are in place in my current theme, there's quite a bit 
of them missing (like Amarok, for instance...) I found that I had to add 
the inherited icon theme I wanted to use for some icons too (I'm 
currently using a Mac-esque  icon theme, and I had to inherit the 
crystal icon theme too). Sure enough the panel would complaint about not 
having an icon available for the launcher, that file was missing and 
such and such. I wonder why is the file not being seen when it fells 
ouside the scope of you currently used icons theme, unless you inherit 
the icon (or link the icon you want into your theme's expected 
directory, like /usr/share/icons/Buecurve/48x48/apps/).

At least there's a bugzilla now about it.