Re: [rox-devel] Which default icons does ROX use?

[Ken H. <kh...@so...>]

Roberto,

First, Thomas' comments assumed you were using the latest ROX 2.1.0.  Are you?

If so, ROX should create ~/.icons/ROX as a symlink to ~/Apps/ROX-Filer/ROX on first run.  At mine just did (I just upgraded from 2.0.1 to 2.1.0)

This format is still very new, so it is not surprising that you don't have any themes already in this format.  People are just now making new themes for it.  (I'm playing around with Gorilla now)

Recently, Gnome and KDE have started using ~/.icons/ for themes, but at least gnome has used their own naming conventions for icons and mimetypes.  FreeDesktop.org is trying to standardize these and ROX is (probably) the first desktop to use the standard names.

The old gnome system of just putting icons in /usr/share/pixmaps and similar places is being phased out.  Hopefully rapidly.


If you are using ROX 2.0.1 or older then your icons go in ~/Choices/MIME-icons or similar folder in /usr/share (?) and you mainly have to customize it by hand or find others who have prepared themes in this format.


HTH


Roberto Inzerillo wrote:
> Il sab, 2003-10-11 alle 13:21, Thomas Leonard ha scritto:
> 
>>On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:46:39PM +0200, Roberto Inzerillo wrote:
>>
>>>a theme on hosts other then my ones. I don't want to simply copy icons
>>>there and then copy a script to customize the PinBoard. I want to deploy
>>>the necessary files in a place where they are already used to be. I am
>>>shure ROX picks default files out of some standard directory such
>>>/usr/share/icons or similar.
>>
>>It uses an icon theme called 'ROX' by default. When first run, it symlinks
>>this from ~/.icons, but it looks in the standard places too. After GTK-2.4
>>is out, it will probably get the theme name from a XSetting.
>>
>>
>>>How does it work? Which is the standard way?
>>
>>See freedesktop.org for details...
>>
> 
> 
> Well, it's still not very clear to me. I looked at freedesktop.org , it
> only explains that icons should be in $HOME/.icons , in
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons or in /usr/share/pixmaps (in that order).
> Variable $XDG_DATA_DIRS is not set in my system (and I don't know what
> it's related to). I guess /usr/share/pixmaps is the standard directory
> used by KDE (it does not contain the icons I see ROX using as default) .
> $HOME/.icons does not exist in my system (ROX was rpm-installed). I
> still don't find out where does ROX-Filer pick the default icons for
> files and/or applications.
> 
> The only directory which seems to store icons and themes in my system
> (Redhat 9) are /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/themes .
> /usr/share/icons is populated with directories named after theme-like
> names.
> /usr/share/themes is populated with directoris named after theme-like
> names but differs from the above ones.
> There is no ROX directory in either one.
> Directories named 'default' are present both in /usr/share/icons and
> /usr/share/themes but they don't contain any icons used by ROX as
> default.
> 
> Does ROX inherit icon's default directory from other Desktop Manager
> like Gnome or KDE (which were used before I installed IceWM and ROX as
> filemanager)?
> 
> Could you please point me into the right direction?
> Thank you :-)
> 
> -------------
> Thomas: first mail was incorrectly sent to _you_ and not to the ML. Sorry.
> 
> 
> 
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