Re: symbolic icon fallback failure

[Patrick Welche <prlw1 cam ac uk>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 04:14:13PM +0100, Olivier Brunel wrote:
> On 11/21/13 15:38, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > Originally I thought that the lack of icons on my system in the post
> > stock-icons age was because symbolic icons are SVGs:
> >
> >   https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2013-November/msg00015.html
> >
> > (The request for documentation still stands.)
> >
> > It seems that the problem is somewhat different:
> >
> > 1) scalable gnome icons (e.g. symbolic svg icons) are not searched for.
> > 2) the claim "If a -symbolic icon is missing, the app will fall back to the
> >    regular name." seems to be false.
> >
> > In reverse order, 2) looked as though it should be fixed by commit d25ee710
> >   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708163
> > which was did appear in 3.10.2 despite the last comment in that bug.
> > It seems that fallback is still broken.
>
> Just in case: are you running the latest GLib (2.38.2) as well? I don't
> know how icons are loaded in your case, but they could come from glib
> and the fallback to non-symbolic icons was only added there in 2.38.2

Thanks for the note - I was running 2.38.1, but just tried 2.38.2 and there
is no change: evince is asking gtk to look for the icons...

Cheers,

Patrick