When VMware workstation is installed on a bare stage3 system, the application GUI has no icon images (eg in the toolbar, or representing snapshots in the tree, or the status images in the bottom right corner). The application runs fine, and images can be created and/or used as expected. Once gnome-base/libgnomeui is installed, the images are then shown. Unknown whether gnome-base/libgnomeui solves the problem itself, or one of its dependencies does. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a basic stage3 system 2. Install app-emulation/vmware-workstation (and its dependencies) 3. Run 'vmware' while in X Expected Results: The VMware workstation GUI should have icon images. Do not install Gnome before installing vmware-workstation, as I never do. I always run VMware workstation by setting VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="force" in the environment. It would make sense to have gnome-base/libgnomeui (or the actual package responsible for the icons) as a dependency, or at least to have a USE flag that can activate that dependency.
(In reply to comment #0) > When VMware workstation is installed on a bare stage3 system, the application > GUI has no icon images (eg in the toolbar, or representing snapshots in the > tree, or the status images in the bottom right corner). The application runs > fine, and images can be created and/or used as expected. Once > gnome-base/libgnomeui is installed, the images are then shown. Unknown whether > gnome-base/libgnomeui solves the problem itself, or one of its dependencies > does. > > Reproducible: Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. Install a basic stage3 system > 2. Install app-emulation/vmware-workstation (and its dependencies) > 3. Run 'vmware' while in X > > > > Expected Results: > The VMware workstation GUI should have icon images. > > Do not install Gnome before installing vmware-workstation, as I never do. I > always run VMware workstation by setting VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="force" in the > environment. It would make sense to have gnome-base/libgnomeui (or the actual > package responsible for the icons) as a dependency, or at least to have a USE > flag that can activate that dependency. > It seems the dependency needed by vmware is only hicolor-icon-theme but I didn't tested it on a clean system. Hope it works for you too.
(In reply to comment #1) > It seems the dependency needed by vmware is only hicolor-icon-theme but I > didn't tested it on a clean system. > Hope it works for you too. Good call. I believe that you're correct. Can we get 'x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme' added to the ebuild as a dependency?
This problem still exists in: vmware-workstation-7.1.4.385536 Background: vmware-workstation is running on a server without a full X install as there is no local display (SSH X forwarding is used). `emerge -v x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme` fixed the missing icons.
fixed in the tree. thanks.
