firefox toolbar icons (not favicons) are missing [SOLVED]

Gentree · Last edited by Gentree on Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:47 pm; edited 2 times in total

Hi,

I recently updated from firefox3.x (which now seems to have leapfrogged to about 13 for some odd reason).

In doing so all my toolbar buttons (like back, forward, reload , etc. ) have gone blank.

If I hover over where they should be a get a blank outline of minimal width and I still get the hint popping up, it just seems to have build without the icon image.

Please note this is not favicon / bookmark problem that seems all over the web in relation to upgrading to ffx 8

Also if I do Save_As or similar I do not get any icons in front of directory names or the various (stupidly named) "places" in the file chooser.

Is this some "theme" which has been withdrawn ?

Any suggestions on how to straighten this out ?

TIA.
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Gentree · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:34 pm Post subject:

got some console output:

Gentree · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:38 pm Post subject:

If I try to configure the toolbar I get the usual palette of text headings and icons except half the icons are missing !

Is this some defective icon package ? I don't see anything in the ebuild.

Is it a faulty fox src file that is missing some of the icons?

How to find out ?

thx

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Gentree · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:13 pm Post subject:

Jaglover · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:51 pm Post subject:

Probably you ran depclean and wiped off the theme.
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Gentree · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:45 pm Post subject:

wcg · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Posts: 554

Note that glib != glibc. glib is a library of general
C functions depended on by gtk and many other
libraries and programs (atk, cairo, pango, qt, and
others). glibc is the GNU C Library, the system C
library that nearly everything but the kernel itself
uses.

So you still may need to re-emerge glib (and perhaps
other libraries that depend on it), but that will not
necessarily solve the icon problem, which may have
some other cause than glib.

I have similar issues, although not as extensive
as those you describe. After an xfce4 upgrade
from 4.8 to 4.10, it has lost the location of the
generic icon that it uses to represent "a web browser"
in the panel and the icon for the logout button.
If I hover with the mouse cursor over where those
icons would normally be and click, the program
(www browser or xfce4 logout dialog in this case)
starts normally. Note that this could be an inability
to render those icons, but I suspect that xfce4 is simply
not finding them.

After logging out of X, I also see some error messages
about glib objects on the console where I ran startx
to load Xorg, but I do not know if they are related
to the missing icons (the messages do not seem that
specific, with no mention of missing files, for example;
simply some application trying to do things with glib objects
in memory not supported by the currently loaded glib
version).

So, your guess is as good as mine. I just wanted to point
out that re-emerging glibc does not cause glib to be
re-emerged, that they are two different packages with
very similar names.

Somewhere there is a typo in a config file. It was probably
emerged by a package upgrade of some package, perhaps
a theme package, but not necessarily. The theme may be fine,
but some parts of it have been relocated in the new package
for it, and one or more of your other packages that use that
theme did not get the memo.

That would be my guess.
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Gentree · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:09 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the glib comment. I wasn't thinking the error is in glib, that is why I have not rebuilt it. It is simply reporting the result of an error trap that finds that the pixbuf object was not created. The error condition comes from the error in gtk+ which fails to find the named icons, icon 'process-stop' amongst others.

Jaglover · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:45 pm Post subject:

Have you tried switching desktop themes.
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Gentree · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:22 am Post subject:

No, these are not desktop themes (I'm using fvwm BTW) they are gtk icon names.

Gentree · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:24 am Post subject:

Seem to be getting closer. Some searching suggested running gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders to update the cache.

I tried and it aborted. So I rebuilt (pulled in a minor update) and it still failed when the installer try to run it !

Gentree · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:41 am Post subject:

Tried rebuilding librsvg thinking that may help but it fails:

[EDIT showing correct output, both 2.36.0 and 2.36.1 show same breakage]

Gentree · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:25 pm Post subject:

Ok, I've sync'ed several times run emerge -uD world ; done revdep-rebuild .... the whole damn lot (took me about five days to clear all the problems and build it all cleanly.

STILL NOT FRIGGIN ICONS !

The most problematic is the file open dialogue no longer has icons for directories so it's very hard to see where the directories end and file names start.

Not having back , forward and reload is also a pain.

What do I need to do to fix this mess. :evil:

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Gentree · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:52 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 2:37 pm Post subject:

now moved to ffux-14 , it seems the place that had the icon less buttons has gone altogether now. Not that that is helpful but it seems less buggy.

I think I had a config from ff 3.6.x that was not properly integrated when moving to ff-13.

I also found out that firefox depends of gtk+:2 not gtk+:3 , so I was messing around rebuilding the wrong version.

There was a recognised but in <GTK+2.10 that was returning a null pointer when it shouldn't , this was the cause of most of the errors.

updating to gtk+-2.11.0 got rid of all the mess on the console and the dialogues now icons for directory entries, which is a great help in clarity.

It seems that the "new tab" button is no longer available, so what I found missing , really is missing in newer ffux, call it a "feature" if you will.

The bugginess that had me running around for the last couple of weeks seems to be the untidy way this feature was removed in ffux-13 , compounded by the gkt+ bug producing console output that looked related and probably was a separate issue. .

Phew !

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Gentree · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:54 pm Post subject:

Getting a better understand of what Mozilla have done to confuse the hell out of the user and make life harder (and how to fix it).

Forward and Back icons was a bug, now fixed as stated above.

Disappearing Home , Reload and 'New tab' buttons was simply Mozilla being stupid and inept about UI design.

Stop/Reload in now INSIDE the address bar and end of the URL input box.
Home is at the far RHS after the google search input box.
New Tab button is the little plus sign tab that floats along just after the last tab.

The fundamental thing they get wrong here is that ergonomic means having stuff in a consistent position that does not require visual re-evaluation of the whole browser window to see where the controls for repetitive tasks currently are each time you need to use them.

Not having to sweep the mouse from extreme left to extreme right would be good too.

All these can be moved to a consistent and easily accessed (like where they were before they started messing around) via the usual customise functions:

right-click on an empty bit of any tool-bar and select customise from the menu. Then drag the icons where you want them and click "Done".

This starting to smack of Microsoft tactics. Move stuff around, shuffle the deck, confuse the hell out of everyone and pretend you have written an upgrade.

Don't you just love updating software? :roll:

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