sugar-session does not display the icons

[James Michael DuPont]

Binary package hint: sugar-base

sugar-session displays a white screen when you start it, because it cannot find the icons.
the problem is the gnome theme does not have the sugar icons in the search path.

I wrote about this in my blog and proposed a hack to fix it :
http://fmtyewtk.blogspot.com/2009/12/olpc-sugar-still-br0k3n-on-ubuntu.html

thanks,
mike

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 15 19:23:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: python-sugar (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: sugar-base
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[James Michael DuPont (jamesmikedupont)]

workarounds replacing :
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/sugar/graphics/icon.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/sugar/graphics/combobox.py

[James Michael DuPont (jamesmikedupont)]

1260899865.052876 WARNING root: No icon with the name computer-xo was found in the theme.

[James Michael DuPont (jamesmikedupont)]

i was suggested to try the PPA :
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Using_sugar_PPAs

[David Farning (dfarning)]

this has been fixed as of the latest release of Sugar on maverick.