Next and Previous icons showing as No Entry symbols

[Colin Law]

Using a new install from daily ppa, version 0.1-0~858~precise1 the Next and Previous buttons next to the home button show as No Entry symbols (red circle with red bar) rather than (presumably) arrows.

I saw the comment saying not to report functionality bugs but was not sure whether this should be reported or not, so apologies if this is classed as functionality rather than error.

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

I can relate to that, I experience it too.
(see the screenie)

[Mario (ftpkid)]

Same thing here :/

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

since rev865 marlin use symbolic icons for its toolbar.
If the button show a no entry symbol it means the icon theme you're using doesn't provide the requested icon.
Hopefully most theme fallback on gnome icons.

So intalling gnome-icon-theme-symbolic package should solve your issues.
I'll add the package to Marlin dependencies.

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

Umm, I'm afraid that wouldn't work.
Behold:
me4oslav@me4oslav-laptop:~$ gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic: command not found
me4oslav@me4oslav-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
[sudo] password for me4oslav:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
And guess what? I still experience the bug.

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

marlin packages has failed building again while varka suceeded. Afaik it would be fixed with a successfull build of Marlin (rev > 865).
I got no problem building on a virtual machine while the automatic builder from launchpad fail.

valac(inst 0.14.2-0ubuntu1 ! >= wanted 0.16.0)|valac-0.16(missing)
really valac-0.16 doesn t exist on precise ??? stupid bot.

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

Great, I hope it gets fixed with the rev > 865 :)

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

the builds are almost done. By the way i recommand to use Adwaita theme ;)

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

Umm, Adwaita + Unity ... HMM? :P
I use this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/dark-ambiance-reintroduces-dark-touches-to-ubuntus-default-theme +fs-icons-me-egypt-mono-dark.
P.S. I wasn't totally honest. I do use the theme above ... only with antialiased window decoration :P (ugly metacity hack to having non jagged corners under Compiz and gtk-window-decorator)

[Mario (ftpkid)]

I have been using faenza for a long time now.
And just today i have witnessed the bug.
Could u explain again what is the initial problem :D

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

The problem was that marlin switched to symbolic icons and not many themes support them (AFAIK only Elementary and Gnome-icon-theme do). If the user set icon theme didn't supported them the fallback was to be gnome-icon-theme-symbolic. (the latter was for rev > 865) However the build from rev > 865 failed and marlin was left to use symbolic icons without any sort of fallback, hence the "No Entry symbols (red circle with red bar)".
When rev > 865 is built (should be extremely soon) the bug will be fixed :)

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

BTW, whilst the update indeed fixed the issue, it caused the horror of it all:
(see the screenie)

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

Ok, I have a bit more elegant solution, it goes like this:

if $user_set_icon_theme supports symbolic icons, use them
else use $custom_icon_set
    if the theme has dark toolbar use $custom_light_icon_set
    else use $cutsom_dark_icon_set (or gnome-icon-theme-symbolic)

Oh and fix the pathbar widget ... it looks broken.

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

marlin now use symbolic icons, the colors of the icons are defined in your theme so there's no use anymore for a dark or light icon set. Icons take the color u gave. Toolbar & Buttons spacing reliefs etc... are defined in the theme. I gave all the power to the themes. It's up to the themes now to have a beautiful interface or an horrible one.

I think the job is done quite well with Adwaita.
http://ammonkey.minus.com/mLohbmvbU/

And ambiance got no choice but to implement theses because epiphany-browser is now like this, nautilus is now like this and many more gnome applications would be like this.

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

Ok, damn you Ambiance in this case.
Now, if it doesn't implement some sanity (hopefully it does!) can Marlin have a patch like this:
 if $selected_theme_is_Ambiance
     then Marlin use custom Ambiance theme

[Colin Law (colin-law)]

I can confirm this is fixed for me in 0.1-0~871~precise1 (Ubuntu 12.04)

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

BTW, Ambiance/Radiance are not the only themes that have issues with the new Gnome apps theming.
Zukitwo looks seriously screwed up:
http://i.imgur.com/cQuME.png
And Holo and NIX look awkward too:
http://i.imgur.com/qUrF4.png
http://i.imgur.com/J4bKQ.png
@am-monkeyd - can there be some way to use the previous Marlin behaviour for those themes until they gain support for the new theming? :)