Re: Hicolor icon theme

[Tarnyko <tarnyko tarnyko net>]

John Emmas writes: 

Hi John, 

> I'm not sure if this is the right place for my question but if not, maybe 
> someone will point me in the right direction.... 
>
> About 2 years ago I built the Ardour DAW which was then at version 2.  I 
> built it for Windows, using MSVC.  Naturally there were a few problems but 
> eventually it all worked.  I'm now trying to build Ardour3.  Ardour3 still 
> uses GTK2 in case that's significant.  GTK2 and all the other libraries 
> are also built (by me) using MSVC 
>
> The build itself seems to have gone okay but when I try to run it, GTK 
> complains (and subsequently crashes) because it can't find the "hicolor" 
> theme and icons.  In particular, it crashes when trying to load something 
> called "edit-find" (a cursor maybe?)  Each time it crashes, I see some 
> debugging output which directs me to this web page:- 
>
> http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases/ 
>
> Various themes are listed there but I've no idea how to install them (or 
> even where to install them!) 
>
> How do I find out more about these themes and what I need to do with them? 

Just extract the latest archive and run "configure-make-make install". It 
will install the theme directory structure to "usr/share/icons". 

Not sure there is an MSVC build script for that, though. At worst, grab this 
directory from an existing bundle and put it in your folder. 

>  Thanks. 
>
> John
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Regards,
Tarnyko