digital clock applet shows up as just a line

[Hugo Platzer]

The digital clock applet doesn't work for me: I'm using ubuntu 8.10_i686(gnome 2.24) and awn 0.32 and awn-extras 0.32,installed from source tarballs. When I load it,it just shows up as a white line. Looking at the output of awn, the relevant line probably is(translated)
glib.GError: symbol »awn-applet-digital-clock« not in theme

[moonbeam (rcryderman)]

sounds like it's not finding the icon because the icon caches didn't get updated.

try

sudo update-icon-caches /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/

or if you installed to the /usr prefix

sudo update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/hicolor/

I suspect that will probably fix it.

[Hugo Platzer (hugoplatzer)]

That fixes it.
Bug can be closed.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

See Bug #236604 in AWN and this blog post:

http://blogs.gnome.org/jjongsma/2006/10/15/icon-theme-cache-issues/

This is probably the same situation. Something like the following should probably get added to a makefile for extras:

+gtk_update_icon_cache = gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t ${datadir}/icons/hicolor
+
+install-data-hook: update-icon-cache
+uninstall-hook: update-icon-cache
+
+update-icon-cache:
+ @-if test -z "$(DESTDIR)"; then \
+ echo "Updating Gtk icon cache."; \
+ $(gtk_update_icon_cache); \
+ else \
+ echo "*** Icon cache not updated. After install, run this:"; \
+ echo "*** $(gtk_update_icon_cache)"; \
+ fi
+

I'm just not sure where the best place would be. Maybe in Makefile.desktop-files as it already dealing with icons?

[Mark Lee (malept)]

The problem with putting it in Makefile.desktop-files is that then it gets executed for each applet.

[Mark Lee (malept)]

A variation on the patch has been committed in trunk revision 1158. Can someone confirm that it works?

[Mark Lee (malept)]

Fix released in Awn Extras 0.3.2.2.