[Bug 170291] New: GNOME cannot find kile icon

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 07:15 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 20:14 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> >>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 If the cache file gets out-of-date and an icon is not found within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.
> 
> The toplevel theme directory being /usr/share/icons or 
> /usr/share/icons/__theme__?
> 
> -- Rex
> 

The one containing the index.theme file, ie /usr/share/icons/<theme>