On 11/21/13 15:38, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Originally I thought that the lack of icons on my system in the post
> stock-icons age was because symbolic icons are SVGs:
> 
>   https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2013-November/msg00015.html
> 
> (The request for documentation still stands.)
> 
> It seems that the problem is somewhat different:
> 
> 1) scalable gnome icons (e.g. symbolic svg icons) are not searched for.
> 2) the claim "If a -symbolic icon is missing, the app will fall back to the
>    regular name." seems to be false.
> 
> In reverse order, 2) looked as though it should be fixed by commit d25ee710
>   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708163
> which was did appear in 3.10.2 despite the last comment in that bug.
> It seems that fallback is still broken.

Just in case: are you running the latest GLib (2.38.2) as well? I don't
know how icons are loaded in your case, but they could come from glib
and the fallback to non-symbolic icons was only added there in 2.38.2

> 
> 1) seems odd: when running e.g. evince --gtk-debug=icontheme (3.10.3), a
> gtk 3.10.3 system with gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.8.3, and gsetting:
>    org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'gnome'
> shows caches found in icons/hicolor and icons/gnome
> 
> (gtk-update-icon-cache --validate returns 0 for those two directories
>  so validates OK.
>  Is there an easy way of dumping the contents of the cache?)
> 
> Evince then looks for dialog-password in
> 
> "" <-? builtins?
> icons/hicolor/..x..      (why hicolor when gsettings says icon-theme=gnome?)
> evince/icons/..x..
> icons/hicolor/scalable
> evince/icon/scalable
> theme_lookup_icon found dialog-password in dir (null)
> ? builtin - it apparently didn't look in icons/gnome/..x.. which is where the
>             PNGs live.
> 
> Next is go-up-symbolic, which won't be found, and which lives in
> icons/gnome/scalable/actions
> 
> It is looked for in
> ""
> icons/hicolor/..x..
> evince/icons/..x..
> icons/hicolor/scalable
> evince/icon/scalable
> (as before, and in addition)
> icons/hicolor/..x..  (again, interleaved with icons/gnome)
> icons/gnome/..x..    (because of commit 90dee25e in 3.10.3?)
> ""
> icons/hicolor/..x..  (again, with evince/icons/hicolor)
> gtk_icon_theme_lookup_icon image-missing
> 
> so icons/gnome/scalable is not searched, and fallback non-symbolic
> "go-up" is also not searched for.
> 
> 
> Can you shed light on what is meant to happen?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> BTW gtkicontheme.c:1658 choose_icon() seems odd: the first block
> checks for a -symbolic suffix, but appears to do the same as the
> second block. Was that intentional?
> 
> Attached is a patch to 3.10.3 I used to spew more debugging output.
> 
> 
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