Comment 4 for bug 1226925

Hi,
the theme of your desktop is defined by gnome-settings-daemon on Gnome,
XFCE has its own daemon, KDE its own too, you get the idea.

The settings daemon is a tool that sets some properties shared over all
applications (like what is the icons theme, the cursor theme, etc).
GTK use these info, gvfs too (gvfs is used by the Shortcuts applet for
instance).

Now, Cairo-Dock doesn't require gnome-settings-daemon, nor any other one,
but if you want to have a nice look, the properties need to be set. You can
do it yourself (see
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/xsettings-spec/) if you
prefer not relying on gnome-settings-daemon.

2013/9/18 Jehan <email address hidden>

> ** Attachment added: "Same for Applications Menu: without and with the
> gnome-settings-daemon running."
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-core/+bug/1226925/+attachment/3826374/+files/cairo-dock-icons-menu.png
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> Title:
> gnome-settings-daemon necessary to have icons
>
> Status in Cairo-Dock : Core:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I was using cairo-dock in a bare openbox session (no GNOME/KDE) and
> many of the icons in various plug-ins were broken (ok so maybe that is
> a bug report which should go in cairo-dock-plug-ins then, but since it
> happened all over the place, I was unsure if this is not rather a core
> issue.
>
> For instance in the attached image, you can see that all icons in
> shortcuts are question-mark icons instead of usual partition/folder
> icons. In the Applications Menu plug-ins, they would be ugly red-
> crossed "no icon" icon.
>
> But if I run `gnome-settings-daemon &` in my autostart script *before*
> I run cairo-dock, then I have nice icons in shortcuts/Applications
> Menu (and even the application menu icon itself would change to the
> Mint icon for some reason).
>
> Why is that? Can't you run cairo-dock without some minimum of GNOME
> running (or KDE or other, I have not tried if it fixes the issue
> there) and have nice-looking icons? It would be nice to have a nice-
> looking system, even without any desktop environment running in
> background. :-)
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