Aha. Thanks Emmanuele. I'm now totally on top of what is needed :) Dan On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi; > > sorry, it was late at night and I was on my phone, so I was unhelpfully terse. > > On 20 May 2015 at 01:32, Daniel Kasak <d.j.kasak.dk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Can you please explain this further? I had assumed this was the >> correct way to ask for the 'new' icon, from whatever icon theme was >> selected. > > No, that's the way you use the deprecated GTK+ stock items, which may > have an associated icon and may have an associated label, or both, or > even neither. Stock icons may map to icons that may be outsourced to > the current icon theme, or to resources embedded into the GTK+'s > shared library, or to resources inside an application, if the > application registers their own stock items. > > This whole mess has been deprecated (and rightfully so) because it > makes it impossible to actually determine what will go to the screen > reliably; it was added before we had icon themes, and survived far too > long afterwards. > > If you want to use symbolic names for icons, as opposed to loading > assets using GdkPixbuf, you should use the name of the icon in the > icon theme — in this case, 'document-new' instead of 'gtk-new' (which > is the string hiding behind the GTK_STOCK_NEW symbol). > > The deprecation notes for each stock item here: > > https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-Stock-Items.html > > And the freedesktop.org icon naming specification here: > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html > > Should give you a head start on porting your code and your coding > practices. The Adwaita icon theme (which is used as a template for > most icon themes available these days) contains more icons that you > can use. > >> Also I'm not convinced this build is working correctly WRT selecting >> icon themes - as noted, changing the theme in my settings.ini has no >> effect on icons that do get rendered ( and there aren't many of them >> ). > > You need to check that the icon theme is in the correct path (usually: > PREFIX/share/icons); that the icon theme cache is updated > (gtk-update-icon-cache or gtk3-update-icon-cache is run after > installation); that the GdkPixbuf loader are set and available for the > various formats used by the icon theme assets. > > Ciao, > Emmanuele. > >> Dan >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi; >>> >>> Do not use "gtk-new" and other stock button names: use the correctly named >>> icons from the theme. >>> >>> Ciao, >>> Emmanuele. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
