[Bug 170291] New: GNOME cannot find kile icon

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 20:14 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170291
> 
> > After installing kile GNOME is not able to find the kile icon. The kile entry in
> > the Application/Office menu shows no icon.
> > 
> > This problem can be solved by deleting /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
> > and executing "gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor". Without the
> > deletion gtk-update-icon-cache doesn't update the cache file.
> > 
> > 
> > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> > kile-1.8.1-3.fc4
> 
> Since I think this has come up a few times occasionally, to me it still
> sounds like GNOME brokeness. What kind of icon caching concept is
> this? If the cache file gets out-of-date and an icon is not found within
> the cache, the desktop system doesn't search the file system? Huh? Or
> maybe this is configurable in some place? Why should a KDE application
> maintain a GTK icon theme cache file?  

They don't have to. It would be enough if they actually followed the
icon theme spec they claim to be using, and touched the toplevel theme
directory when installing a new icon.

Matthias