starting blueman-applet on an e17 system without gnome icon themes installed is impossible. it errors out because of missing icons. this should not happen. a system-wide fallback for icons that cannot be found to the ones corresponding in the installed icon theme would be perfect and needed anyhow. maybe there exists a solution for this already, but none that i know of. the motivation for using blueman over gnome or kde specific stuff often might be because of avoiding bloat. installing gnome icons for blueman to run is somewhat .. er .. counterproductive. if this is indeed necessary, a RDEPEND has to be added to the ebuild. upstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/blueman/+bug/1037216 debian seems to already have fixed this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631838 tbart@blackknight ~ $ blueman-applet Loading configuration plugins blueman-applet version 1.23 starting Stale PID, overwriting Using file config backend _________ Load (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:68) ['NetUsage', 'Networking', 'SerialManager', 'DiscvManager', 'Menu', 'ExitItem', 'PPPSupport', 'AuthAgent', 'StatusIcon', 'DBusService', 'Headset', 'ShowConnected', 'NMDUNSupport', 'PulseAudio', 'StandardItems', 'TransferService', 'KillSwitch', 'DhcpClient', 'RecentConns', 'AppIndicator', 'NMPANSupport', 'PowerManager'] Using file config backend _________ Load (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:68) Unable to load plugin module AppIndicator No module named appindicator _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.StatusIcon.StatusIcon'> Using file config backend _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.DBusService.DBusService'> _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.Headset.Headset'> Using file config backend _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.Networking.Networking'> Using file config backend _________ load_nap_settings (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/Networking.py:47) Loading NAP settings _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.NMDUNSupport.NMDUNSupport'> _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.Menu.Menu'> _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.NMPANSupport.NMPANSupport'> _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.PowerManager.PowerManager'> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/plugins/BasePlugin.py", line 65, in _load self.on_load(parent) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/PowerManager.py", line 53, in on_load self.item = create_menuitem(_("<b>Bluetooth Off</b>"), get_icon("gtk-stop", 16)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/Functions.py", line 183, in get_icon icon = ic.load_icon("gtk-missing-image", size, 0) GError: Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) Failed to load PowerManager Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.AuthAgent.AuthAgent'> _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.ShowConnected.ShowConnected'> _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) Not loading DhcpClient because it's conflict has higher priority _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.TransferService.TransferService'> _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.DiscvManager.DiscvManager'> Using file config backend Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/plugins/BasePlugin.py", line 65, in _load self.on_load(parent) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/DiscvManager.py", line 46, in on_load self.item = create_menuitem(_("_Make Discoverable"), get_icon("gtk-find", 16)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/Functions.py", line 183, in get_icon icon = ic.load_icon("gtk-missing-image", size, 0) GError: Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) Failed to load DiscvManager Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.RecentConns.RecentConns'> Using file config backend _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) Not loading PPPSupport because it's conflict has higher priority _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.StandardItems.StandardItems'> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/plugins/BasePlugin.py", line 65, in _load self.on_load(parent) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/StandardItems.py", line 38, in on_load self.new_dev = create_menuitem(_("_Setup New Device")+"...", get_icon("gtk-new", 16)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/Functions.py", line 183, in get_icon icon = ic.load_icon("gtk-missing-image", size, 0) GError: Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme _________ __load_plugin (/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py:142) Failed to load StandardItems Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme
Just as a FYI for users being affected: I also use gtk-engines-qtcurve, so if you do so as well, you'll have to adapt it to include some theme containing gtk-* icon names... for example $ cat ~/.gtkrc.mine gtk-icon-theme-name="<your theme that contains gtk-* icons>" This might help to just change it for one application (blueman, that is..): # cat /usr/local/share/themes/mybluemangtkrc gtk-icon-theme-name = "<your theme that contains gtk-* icons>" gtk-fallback-icon-theme="<your theme that contains gtk-* icons>" # cat /usr/local/bin/bluemanwrapper GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/local/share/themes/mybluemangtkrc /usr/bin/$(basename $0) # for app in blueman-adapters blueman-assistant blueman-manager blueman-services blueman-applet blueman-browse blueman-sendto; do ln -s /usr/local/bin/bluemanwrapper /usr/bin/$app; done Now you can start blueman-* apps by using /usr/local/bin/blueman-* (Strange: "Real" files in /usr/local/bin have precedence over those in /usr/bin if your PATH is configured correctly, but links do not..)
This is a dublicate of 445966 (Reported: 2012-12-04). But this bug is more detailed. I can confirm this problem (xfce user with tango-icon-theme). My opinion: Until this is fixed upstream gnome-icon-theme should be a runtime dependency.
Confirming and agree
FYI I'm on the dev team, tracking this upstream here: https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/issues/112
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 445966 ***
