[SOLVED] Strange behavior with icons on mate

[doktor5000]

Hi,

Im using Mageia with mate desktop

I've noticed the folowing weird behaviors , using my custom icon theme

- Mageia tools ignores all the symlinked icons (it's cause of mate desktop or cause of mageia tools)?

- Mageia seems to look at the

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/usr/share/icons/mini/

and

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/usr/share/icons/large/

folders , whic seems to me not good, because the tools and the envoronment should look at the classic

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$HOME/.icons/custom-icon-folder/

ever

Thank you

Cheers !

[doktor5000]

Hi there, you may want to post your actual custom icon theme. Simply adding a folder with icons will not change icons used, unless you replace icons by filename in the currently used theme.

[thealio]

Hi

that's my icon theme

https://codeberg.org/thealio/classic-de ... -evolvere2

[doktor5000]

For the Mageia tools where you mentioned they ignore all the symlinked icons, can you provide one or two particular examples ?

[thealio]

Hi
drakrpm launcher
mageiawelcome launcher
mageiaupdate > /usr/bin/drakrpm-update launcher
localedrake

If you need them, I'll post some screenshots tomorrow

UPDATE : screenshoot

The icon showed are the standard empty text icons

[doktor5000]

Ahh OK I thought you meant Mageia tools inside MCC, so you mean the launchers for standalone tools.
And you're testing with icons on the desktop?

drakrpm ships its own icons: https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/rpmd ... ee/pixmaps and here's the packaging: https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/caul ... markup#l59
FWIW you may want to look at some previous work for new icons by animtim: https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/caul ... markup#l59

mageiawelcome uses an icon named exactly that: https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/mage ... me.desktop

localedrake also uses an icon named exactly that: https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drak ... alone/menu

From a quick check what mate displays seems about right.
I've just checked all the localedrake icons in your theme:

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doktor5000@Mageia9]─[17:52:57]─[~/Downloads/classic-de] find . -iname "*localedrake*"
./apps/18/localedrake.svg
./apps/24/localedrake.svg
./apps/22/localedrake.svg
./apps/16/localedrake.svg
./apps/64/localedrake.svg
[doktor5000@Mageia9]─[17:55:50]─[~/Downloads/classic-de] find . -iname "*localedrake*" -exec file -bi {} \;
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
text/plain; charset=us-ascii


Those are text files that only contain the string "preferences-desktop-locale.svg"
This is the same for mageiawelcome.

Those are not valid icon files according to https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ ... efinitions or https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ ... con_lookup

[thealio]

I'll check later tomorrow

BTW, I think those files are text plain just because they're symlinks to an .svg icon, so technically symlinks should read correctly as a icons by .desktop files.
At this point , it could be a problem related to mate desktop

[doktor5000]

Ahh ok that might be only when downloading your theme as .zip, it works as a tarball, symlinks look fine and icons too when previewing them.

Not sure about mate in particular, you could try to run any of the apps under GTK inspector and check their CSS to see if you find some hints about the icon not appearing. Have a look at https://askubuntu.com/questions/597259/ ... -inspector

Otherwise you could try to force-update the GTK icon cache using

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gtk-update-icon-cache -f ~/.icons/Varied-evolvere2

Probably not the best idea to also put the generated cache within the theme folder in your version control.

Or you can try to install icons for a single application into a new theme using e.g. xdg-icon-resource command and see if that makes a difference.

[thealio]

Hi , and thank you for your support

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gtk-update-icon-cache -f ~/.icons/Varied-evolvere2

and
[*]sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f ~/.icons/Varied-evolvere2

Resolved my issue

Many many thanks !

Removed quote. ~Germ