Broken icon handling in Nautilus 2.21.6 in Hardy

[Tomasz Sterna]

With todays (2008-01-24) upgrade of my Hardy installation, I lost all my desktop icons customizations: size, placement, custom folder icons.

Also folder icons handling is broken. They are not read from selected theme, but from underlying theme that master theme inherits from. Trashcan icon is also from the fallback theme, not the main theme selected. Terminal icon that I have on desktop is completely lost and shows default GTK icon placeholder.

I noticed that the option tu customize desktop icon is gone. When I right click an icon on the desktop and select "Properties", I used to be able to click the icon (it was a button) and be able to select custom icon for the folder or launcher. Now the icon in the properties dialog is unclickable.

Icons of my connected network and WebDAV resources are missing too. They used to show on the desktop.

I noticed, that panel menu applets are getting the folder icons correctly. It seems that only nautilus is broken.

smoku@wing:~$ nautilus --version
GNOME nautilus 2.21.6

smoku@wing:~$ dpkg -l nautilus
ii nautilus 1:2.21.6-0ubuntu2

I used to have a very clear desktop with easy to find things: http://staff.xiaoka.com/smoku/stuff/zsyp/sshot-wing-20070723.png
now it's a complete mess: http://staff.xiaoka.com/smoku/stuff/zsyp/sshot-wing-20080124.png

[Tomasz Sterna (smoku)]

I checked if I'm able to move and resize icons and it works. Only the icon image customization is gone and I lost all my previous settings.

[Rached B (benmur)]

Maybe the loss of previous customization information is due to the following bug (which has a patch) :
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511592

[Nemes Ioan Sorin (nemes-sorin)]

Same bug here - all gone - some links to external Home folder does not work - "Couldn't display "/opt/lampp/htdocs" -> There is no application installed for this file type

so what we can do ?

this patch:

Index: libnautilus-private/nautilus-metafile.c
===================================================================
--- libnautilus-private/nautilus-metafile.c (revision 13644)
+++ libnautilus-private/nautilus-metafile.c (working copy)
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
   } else if (*p == '/') {
    *e++ = '%';
    *e++ = '2';
- *e++ = 'f';
+ *e++ = 'F';
   } else {
    *e++ = *p;
   }

what we can do with peoples that dont know to recompile their nautilus to get back old functionalities ?
please someone upload a patched build.

btw smoku where I can get those Vista Icons ? I use NuoveXT which is great but I need Vista icons for someone else

[Tomasz Sterna (smoku)]

These are LiNsta icons - get it from gnome-look.org: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/LiNsta-icons?content=62759

Hint: get also nuvoeXT 2: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/nuoveXT+2?content=56625 and Vista-Inspirate: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Vista-Inspirate?content=28352
and edit LiNsta-0.3/index.theme to inherit from them. :-)

[Tomasz Sterna (smoku)]

Gnome Bugzilla #511592 may be related to lost positioning and sizes.

But I doubt #511592 is related to inability to customize item icons.

I compared Nautilus 2.20 and 2.21.
In 2.21 when I right click a desktop item and select "Properties", in
the following properties window the item icon is not a button anymore
and I cannot click it to select e custom icon for an item.
It works fine with 2.20 (in Gutsy) though - item icon is clickable and shows icon browser.

[Nemes Ioan Sorin (nemes-sorin)]

Thanks smoku, that was really helpful - indeed I need to hack index.theme ;)

[Tomasz Sterna (smoku)]

After todays upgrade, the icon positioning and customization is back.

I still have wrong folder and gnome-terminal icons.

[Mahdi (mahdi-hates-spam)]

Same fallback theme icons here on up-to-date hardy. =/

[Nemes Ioan Sorin (nemes-sorin)]

Nautilus 2.21.90

On Properties dialog still no selector for custom icons.

[Tomasz Sterna (smoku)]

I asked on Nautilus mailing list and upstream says, that this gnome-mount extension is not ported to new GIO Nautilus yet.

[Tomasz Sterna (smoku)]

I reported the fallback icon problem upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513763