Bug 51649 – gnome-incon-theme-1.2.0 does not create desktop.index files

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description vtkstef 2004-05-21 07:51:28 UTC]

all the icon themes directories installed by gnome-incon-theme-1.2.0 do not include their corresponding desktop.index files which are required by kde icon loader. Here is an excerpt of KDE warnings that I get

kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ group 1
6x16/stock/chart not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ group 1
6x16/stock/code not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ group 1
6x16/stock/data not valid.
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These warnings are aloso discussed in 

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=137183&highlight=

  and 

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=157122&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gnome-incon-theme-1.2.0
2. start any kde app (i.e: kprinter)
3. look at .xsession-errors

Actual Results:  
Received numerous kde icon loader warnings 

Expected Results:  
should have installed the appropriate desktop.index files

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-05-25 02:22:35 UTC]

hicolor != gnome-icon-theme

i bet this is just kde being too rigid about what it expects from an icon theme, hicolor is just a placeholder without much value atm.

If it's only warnings it isn't much of a problem either.

I think upping hicolor to 0.5 might resolve these warnings.

[Comment 2 vtkstef 2004-05-25 05:14:19 UTC]

I tried installing version 0.5 of hicolor-icon-theme and I the warnings still did not go away. I as per notes in the forums, I removed the above package, and warnings went away.

[Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-01-18 10:14:41 UTC]

I think this issue is best discussed here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80839