nautilus icons have disappeared

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:08:16 -0700
> From: Adam Weinberger <adamw at freebsd.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
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> >> (06.06.2003 @ 0925 PST): Khairil Yusof said, in 1.0K: <<
> > On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 00:36, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > > Am Do, 2003-06-05 um 18.33 schrieb Mike Harding:
> > > > Just the desktop icons - they've all gone generice and look like
> > > > 'paper' including folders.  .jpg and .mpeg files show a little
> > > > picture.
> > > > 
> > > > I rebuilt most of gnome but I still don't get the icons - any clues,
> > > > anyone?
> > > 
> > > maybe (re-)installing gnome-icon-theme ???
> > 
> > Just did that too, and it doesn't fix the problem.
> >> end of "Re: nautilus icons have disappeared" from Khairil Yusof <<
> 
> Sorry I didn't answer you on this yesterday... I crashed out pretty
> early.
> 
> These problems started after I committed two programs, either (or
> neither) of which may be the culprit here. gnome-icon-theme and
> libgnomeui were both updated.
> 
> If you please, try downgrading each of them to the previous version and
> see if that fixes things? Joe's thought -- and I think I agree with him
> on this -- is that downgrading libgnomeui is probably the way to go.
> 
> Also: which icon set are you using? Does this happen with the default
> set?

I am using the default (gnome) set and it happens to me. Also, not
just the desktop icons, but most icons are lost, as well. A few
including the Screensaver and the Applications icon in start-here:///
still are seen.

I also got them back by copying the icons directory into ~/.icons, but
that is a bad work-around.
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