SVG Icons (GTK2/Nautilus)

blamothe · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:50 pm Post subject: SVG Icons (GTK2/Nautilus)

I am trying to use the nuvola metatheme from gnome-themes-extras, and it works fine except for one thing, the nautilus icons. for some reason, nautilus and gnome-panel can't recognize SVG icons, so instead of the cool looking icon popping up, a white sheet of paper with a red x pops up. i ran nautilus in a terminal and it just spitts out a bunch of "unrecognized format" errors. i am not talking about the gnome icon theme, but the icons in the nautilus menu and the foot icon on the gnome panel. if anyone has successfully gotten SVG to work with these icons, please post. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

timmfin · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:30 pm Post subject:

Most of them work fine with me but not all of them. What version of librsvg do you have? (emerge -p librsvg)

athemi · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:49 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem. To fix it, try this:

- Make sure, you have librsvg-2.2.5 (most recent one in portage) or higher
- recompile gtk-engines and gtk+ (GTK2)

Restart X, gdm, or whatsoever and everything should run just fine.

timmfin · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:54 am Post subject:

A newer version of librsvg is out, but not in portage. If you rename librsvg-2.2.5.ebuild to librsvg-2.3.1.ebuild it will give the the newer version. EVery version of it fixes alot of icons. I should go submit this to bugzilla.

<edit>I noticed that 2.3.1 is out</edit>

blamothe · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:43 am Post subject:

i have librsvg 2.2.5, and none of the icons work whatsoever. i am trying to install the nuvola theme, and the theme installs, but where the icons are supposed to be, i just see white sheets of paper with red x's through them. the same thing happens when i try to install gorilla.

athemi · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 11:16 am Post subject:

Have you tried to reemerge gtk-engines and GTK2, as I suggested above?

blamothe · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 11:56 am Post subject:

i didn't even have gtk-themes installed (it was masked). i merged it and nothing changed, still get the sheet of paper with the red x through it.

spectatorion · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 35

I was having the exact same problem. I re-emerged librsvg, gnome-themes-extras, and gtk-engines. gtk-engines was masked, so i had to do this:

kerrick · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:05 pm Post subject:

You might have to emerge gtk+ again in order for GdkPixbuf to recognize the library.
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Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

I didn't have to emerge jack. Having them not recognized initially in the edit shortcuts menu, I ran this, as suggested by jrollins (5 times, nonetheless) in another thread:

Skip.za · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 9:31 am Post subject:

I had the same problem as this. It seems that the /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders file is not configured correctly (or another program changes it) so that librsvg is not called to draw svg icons in gtk2 widgets. I solved it by just re-emerging librsvg (2.2.5), and then accepting the updated config file with etc-update. After that it was all good.

tom.barbeau · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:08 am Post subject:

Thanks Skip.za for the tip. I had that problem too with the gorilla theme, emerged librsvg again as you said ...

restarted X and it worked! :lol:

That's sweet cause I love that gorilla theme. Got to find a background that matches now.