Package: control-center
Severity: normal
Version: GNOME2.2.2 1
os_details: FreeBSD GNOME Project
Synopsis: Theme Manager uses wrong directory for Icon themes
Bugzilla-Product: control-center
Bugzilla-Component: theme-manager
Description:
Description of Problem:
When Installing an Icon theme via the Theme Manager, either via install
button, or drag and drop,
it is placed in $HOME/.themes instead of $HOME/.icons

While this is absolutely ok for GTK and or Metacity themes, it is the
wrong place for icons.

According to
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec.html
the icons should go into $HOME/.icons, /usr/share/icons or
/usr/share/pixmaps.

Not even the theme manager itself is able to display the icon themes
residing in the $HOME/.themes
folder. Moving the icons to the .icons folder makes them visible to the
theme manager (therefore allowing
choice of the icon-theme), as well as every other application that looks
for the icons.

Possible solutions:

1. Make the theme manager detect any icons in a theme file and store
them in $HOME/.icons

2. Tell theme manager, as well as any other app that uses icons to also
look for them in $HOME/.themes

3. Show a message to the user when installing a theme that he has to
handle Icons by hand




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-06-30 18:09 -------

The original reporter (florian@SPAM_REMOVEwoanders.de) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, control-center-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.