Re: GtkFileChooser and icons

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

John Cupitt <john cupitt ng-london org uk> writes:

> Morten Welinder wrote:
> > "Me too".
> > This is one of the few places where running Gtk+ applications without
> > having Gnome delivers a poor experience because of the lack of Gnome.
> 
> Me also. I have gtk 2.4 without gnome and have totally failed to get
> any icons at all in the filechooser despite a lot of fiddling. Has
> anyone tried to write a checklist of what needs to be where to get
> this working?

Well, it actually isn't all that difficult and my mail outlined what
you need to do get them working. Basically you need shared-mime-info,
a GNOME icon theme and you need to tell gtk+ to use that theme.
 

Sven