Re: Helping programs find their icons

2015-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > However, this problem is quite widespread. Many of our gtk packages > install icons into $out/share/icons/hicolor but have no 'index.theme', > and I suspect that's the reason the xfce application menu is missing so > many icons. > > inkscape-0.91 > emacs-24.4 > gtk

Re: Helping programs find their icons

2015-02-05 Thread 宋文武
Mark H Weaver writes: > Hello Guix, > > I've investigated why wicd-gtk is unable to find its icons and fixed it. > Looking at the output of strace, I found that when wicd-gtk looks for > icons, it searches for 'index.theme' files in many different directories > of the form: > > /gnu/store/.../s

Re: Helping programs find their icons

2015-02-05 Thread Andreas Enge
Would it not help to add hicolor-icon-theme as a propagated input to some packages? Or maybe add it as a propagated input inside glib-or-gtk-build-system if that is possible? Andreas

Helping programs find their icons

2015-02-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello Guix, I've investigated why wicd-gtk is unable to find its icons and fixed it. Looking at the output of strace, I found that when wicd-gtk looks for icons, it searches for 'index.theme' files in many different directories of the form: /gnu/store/.../share/icons/hicolor/ The icons it want