Bugzilla Bug 177742

x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme does not install correctly on first install.  As
referenced by http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-557961-highlight-gnome.html
, it appears during the initial install of this package the icons are not
installed. 

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  emerge gnome from a new install
2.  check the available icons when at the desktop


Actual Results:  
The default "games" category in the Applications menu have no icons, and other
various icons and graphics are missing (another example - right click on a
mounted optical disk icon on the desktop - the icon that should be left of
"Copy Disk..." is missing).  

Expected Results:  
All icons installed correctly the first time around.

I didn't think to check if the files installed by the package changed when it
was reinstalled prior;  however all the graphics you would expect of Gnome
function after reinstalling the package.

Yep, gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ does solve it. It's
something we've been working on for a few weeks but only committed a few days
ago. Sorry for the breakage, we're still trying to find a clean solution for
all of this.

Thanks

Here it seems to install only empty directories here so Portage ends up to
clean them away:
betelgeuse@pena ~ $ qcheck hicolor-icon-theme | tail
 AFK: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/mimetypes
 AFK: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/emblems
 AFK: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/animations
 AFK: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/filesystems
 AFK: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/emotes
 AFK: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/actions
 AFK: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/places
 AFK: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/status
 AFK: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/categories
  * 45 out of 321 files are good
betelgeuse@pena ~ $       

betelgeuse@pena ~ $ qlist hicolor
/usr/share/doc/hicolor-icon-theme-0.10/README.bz2
/usr/share/doc/hicolor-icon-theme-0.10/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme

Yeah, some directories are empty, that's normal. On my box, 192x192, 128x128,
96x96, 72x72 and 64x64 are all empty. Nothing to worry about :)

(In reply to comment #3)
> Yeah, some directories are empty, that's normal. On my box, 192x192, 128x128,
> 96x96, 72x72 and 64x64 are all empty. Nothing to worry about :)
> 

Well how is the package of use?
betelgeuse@pena ~ $ qlist hicolor
/usr/share/doc/hicolor-icon-theme-0.10/README.bz2
/usr/share/doc/hicolor-icon-theme-0.10/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme <= only that one makes it a theme ...

I had never looked at this package before and, I agree, it's awfully silly :)

Basically, in Gnome mantra, all default icons and package provided icons are
placed in the hicolor theme. If you qpkg the files in hicolor/32x32/* for
instance, you'll see all your gtk/gnome apps.

Is this theme is still giving you a hard time, just run "gtk-update-icon-cache
-f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/"

it appears this package is only needed to provide categories and as such
doesn't install icons by itself.

@herd, what to do with this bug ?

I'm not even sure the bug came from hicolor-icon-theme in the first place.
Reading the forum posts, it looks like it may have been caused by another theme
(gentoo-artwork?) doing random stuff inside hicolor/

@Chance : Does this bug still hold true on new installs today? Please reopen if
it's the case.