nm-applet missing status icon [SOLVED]

[blinker]

Hi,
I am trying to change the look of gtk apps on a kde 4.3.1 system without gnome

I have emerged
gtk-engine
gtk-engines-qt
gtk-chtheme
and configured kde to use the gnome clearlooks theme.
The theme is used but I am unable to fix an icon issue with the NetworkManager nm-applet

When I left click on the nm-applet a menu pops up showing the available wireless networks
for each network i see a radio button, the name of the network, an icon and a progressbar

The icon is not what I see in other distros
I expect to see an icon like /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/status/network-wireless-encrypted.png
What I have displayed is a paper document with a red X in the middle (missing icon i guess)

I have seen this post http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-796502.html and think it might be related.
I can't get firefox to use /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/actions/go-home.png either.

I am using
net-misc/networkmanager-0.7.1-r6
www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.3

does anybody know what icon nm-applet is looking for?

[cweiske]

You could run "strace networkmanager" and try to find the file in the output.

[blinker]

I did not know this utility.
I killed nm-applet and ran

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$ strace -o strace.log nm-applet

On Gentoo with kde

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open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16

On Fedora with gnome

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open("/usr/share/icons/Fedora/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/Fedora/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/Fedora/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16
open("/usr/share/icons/Fedora/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/Fedora/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16
open("/usr/share/icons/Mist/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/Mist/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/Mist/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16
open("/usr/share/icons/Mist/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/Mist/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16
open("/usr/share/icons/gnome/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16
open("/usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 15
open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY) = 16

I will try to figure out why the gnome theme is not used on gentoo
Thanks for the help

[blinker]

Turns out that this version of nm-applet uses icons that are not in the hicolor icon theme.
This theme is used when no other is specified

the solution for me was to tell kde to use the gnome icon theme

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$ echo "gtk-icon-theme-name=\"gnome\"" >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4

Thanks cweiske

[Jim6]

I just ran into this, here's a slightly more general solution;

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$ echo "gtk-icon-theme-name = \"gnome\"" >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0

I seem to have 9 different icon themes installed in /usr/share/icons/ , but in reality only the default and gnome are different (the rest are copies of either one or the other)