Re: just a few missing icons....

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2010.08.01 20:47, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 08/01/2010 08:21:55 PM Sun, Jack wrote:
> > I'm running balsa 2.4.7. under gentoo, on a mostly KDE system, so I  
> > have the minimal gnome related packages to get balsa installed.   
> > Today's system update hit a number of those gnome packages, and now  
> > the Check and Continue icons on the task bar in balsa are missing  
> > (showing a white page with red x).  There are also some missing  
> > icons in the menus: File (Continue, Get new mail, Addressbook),  
> > Message (View source, Store address), and Settings (Identities).
> >
> > There was a note with the update to gnome-menus (2.30.2-r1) which  
> > mentioned setting XDG_MENU_PREFIX, but that seems relevant to the  
> > main application menu, which in my case is KDE, and besides, I tried  
> > it and it had no apparent effect.
> >
> > Changing the theme with gnome-control-center also had no effect.
> >
> > Before I post to th Gentoo forums, I thought I'd check if anybody  
> > here had any ideas first, although I don't know if this is more of a  
> > gnome or gentoo problem.
>
> The problem is most likely an update to gnome-icon-theme, which has  
> recently (version 2.30) dropped several icons to be consistent with  
> the icon-naming convention[1].  The next release of Balsa will ship  
> its own copies of the dropped icons.  Building and installing from  
> current git would restore them.

Thanks Peter.  I downgraded my gnome-icon-themes from 2.30.0 o 2.28.0  
and all is well for now.  I had another compile issue (purely Gentoo  
issue, so I haven't posted here yet) and once I sort that out I  
probably will go to git.

Jack