xfce 10 and icons

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Tony McC <afmcc at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:16:52 +0200
> Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed a minor regression during my (very) recent upgrade to xfce
>> 10. Apparently, most xfce applications don't seem to use the Tango
>> icons. For example, Thunar does not display the stock folder icon next
>> to the directory names anymore, instead there is no icon.
>> The xfce applications menu has no icons for e.g. "Logout", "Terminal",
>> "System", "Office" and only shows a generic page-like icon with a red
>> cross in the middle. However, applications that come with their own
>> icons are displayed properly in the start menu, e.g. firefox, mplayer,
>> gimp.
>>
>> Does anybode else observe this and has discovered a reason for this
>> behaviour?
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I saw this too.  I solved it by going to the XFCE4 menu and choosing
> Settings|Appearance and on the Icons tab, change the selection to GNOME
> and then back to Tango.  You should have your Tango icons back.

I didn't have anything other than Tango installed, so I installed
icons-human-azul and used that to switch from Tango and back again.
After that, everything is ok.
Thanks for this useful tip.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen