Bug 605174

Summary:	www-client/chromium: allow x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Chromium Project <chromium>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gnome
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-01-09 11:12:27 UTC

Currently elog messages are asking people to install the dead and deprecated x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme manually instead of adwaita-icon-theme (its successor)

The issue is that it seems chromium does something tricky when moving from one theme to the other :/

In some of my setups I can simply install adwaita-icon-theme and it works fine without the old gnome-icon-theme (you can check by uninstalling gnome-icon-theme and opening the "Downloads" page).

But in others... I see missing icons even if I have exactly the same icon sets installed on my system with the same default gtkrc files (from gtk+2 and gtk+3...)

I don't know where chromium  (and google-chrome... as both behave in the same way) are getting the icon settings... do you know?

I think the difference is something related with having and old configuration or not... as, if I don't misremember, the setups with the icons from adwaita working, were reset to fix another unrelated configuration issues... and now they are working nice :/

Thanks for your help (at least on trying to clarify how chromium is getting the icon theme)

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-04-04 09:28:18 UTC

OK, I have seen that, what was wrong on the setups with that not working, is that the value of "Icons" theme as seen from gnome-tweak-tool was "empty" instead of "Adwaita (default)". Once that is set to that default, all works fine without the old gnome-icon-theme 

In dconf-editor, I have tried to "reset" the values for /org/gnome/desktop/interface/icon-theme to the "default" value and it, indeed, sets again the right "Adwaita" value. Hence, this was probably a problem inherited from older gnome/gtk+ versions that weren't setting this value so explicitly

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-04-21 00:59:33 UTC

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0091d8ee715343b48186119e3ee39dd54e239bee

commit 0091d8ee715343b48186119e3ee39dd54e239bee
Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 20 20:57:21 2017 -0400

    www-client/chromium: update icon theme messaging
    
    Replace the static list of acceptable icon themes with some general
    advice instead.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/605174
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.5_p19, Repoman-2.3.2_p49

 www-client/chromium/chromium-59.0.3067.0.ebuild | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)