Comment 6 for bug 1226925

well that's why using a distribution is easier than doing things by
yourself :-)
you can for sure create your own desktop by plugging several programs
togather, but then you need to know about certain things.
We could detect that X settings are missing, but after all, all
applications could, and all applications will look ugly without them.

Openbox is a Window-manager, like Compiz or Metacity, so it's not its job
to define the X settings. Your distribution should have set
'gnome-settings-daemon' as auto-start on logging (I wonder why it was not
the case for you).
In any case, I think that when you start tweaking your desktop like that,
you need to learn a bit (what you did), and that's part of the fun :-)

2013/9/18 Jehan <email address hidden>

> Hi,
>
> actually right now, using gnome-settings-daemon is acceptable because it
> gives me some nice features (like support of ICC profiles, etc.). But I
> am wondering if there is not a way to at least tell the user about these
> kind of tools. Not all users know all Freedesktop specifications. ;-)
>
> For instance, I was certain for days that there was something broken
> with cairo-dock when I saw all these broken icons. And I stumbled upon
> gnome-settings-daemon completely by chance by seeing this command
> commented out in a default openbox autostart script. I tried to see what
> it did, and kept it in my own autostart only because I saw it got me
> back the support of ICC profiles. Then at the next restart, the icons
> were there! That was just chance after chance.
>
> A better way would be to be able to somehow tell the user who does not
> use one of the common desktops about common tools to still have features
> and a nice-looking UI.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226925
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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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