GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 376468
Gnome theme manager shows cursor themes as icon sets
Last modified: 2007-11-09 17:26:05 UTC
This bug was filed in the Debian BTS. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=375322 "In Gnome's 'Theme Preferences' program I select 'Theme Details' to choose another icon set. Strangely all of the comix cursors appear in the list as available icon themes. Of course selecting one of them has no effect on the desktop icons..." and "I have been digging a bit into this - and found a workaround. I somehow think that it is a bug in the gnome theme manager and its handling of index.theme files. A index.theme now: $ cat /usr/share/icons/ComixCursors-Black-Large/index.theme [Icon Theme] Name=Comix Cursor Black Large Bold Comment=The original Comix Cursors - Black Large Bold Example=default If I do a s/=/ = / - it does not appear any more in gnome theme manager. $ cat /usr/share/icons/ComixCursors-Black-Large/index.theme [Icon Theme] Name = Comix Cursor Black Large Bold Comment = The original Comix Cursors - Black Large Bold Example = default"
This isn't a bug in theme manager handling of index.theme files. It is a problem with the layout of cursor themes, as it is currently impossible to tell from the index.theme whether the theme is a cursor theme or an legitimate icon theme. Confirming, but I can't see an obvious solution right now.
*** Bug 401578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 410258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 422140 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A related bug has been posted in Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/control-center/+bug/108290 This bug adds crashes to the list of grievances.
This seems to have been fixed in r7913 already, so it should be fixed in 2.20.