E17 and hicolor-icon-theme

hi all
i am new to e17, and have met some problems with icons
many apps dependes on hicolor-icon-theme (such like firefox).
but it seems that e17 can not find the icons in a icon theme
(can not find firefox.png in /usr/share/icon/hicolor/48x48/apps/firefox.png)
i have searched and the google says icon theme can be choosed in [ settings > setting panel > look > icon theme ]
but there is no icon theme
so how can i use hicolor icon themes in e17 without change the icon section in .desktop file
thanks

Well I don't use the e17 packages provided by Arch, because they seem to lack a few modules that I use, but you could try to download easy_e17.sh (either get the package, or just download it from the source using google), and then compile e17 yourself straight from the source.
If you do so, you should note that the script hasn't been updated in a while, so I had to add engage manually in the e_modules_extra part of the script (and remove the modules it replaces, whose name I forgot...)
I also remember having the same trouble a long time ago, and fixing it by creating a .gtkrc-2.0 file in my home containing the following:
gtk-icon-theme-name="Tango"
include ".gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser"
Obviously changing Tango to hicolor-icon-theme. Can't tell if it'll work though, I can't exactly remember why I had to do this, and it might be severely deprecated (my /home partition is quite old, as I never reformat it)
Lastly, some things can be a pain to configure through e17 settings panel, and are actually system-wide settings (not just e17 specific), so a solution would be to install the kdebase metapackage, and launch the KDE settings panel using systemsettings in the terminal. From here you can set the icon theme by going to Application Appearance -> Icons.
Last edited by Azriel (2012-09-12 04:11:45)

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