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  1. Bug #316924
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Comment 14 for bug 316924

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vocx (eliudcabrera) wrote :

Well, I tried installing a few themes and I haven't been able to reproduce this bug.

I installed the icon themes
    Amora-0.4.1.tar.gz
    SnowIsh-1.0.tar.gz (SVG)
    SnowIsh-1.0_PNG.tar.bz

and the Gtk+ meta-theme
    SnowIsh-Theme.tar.gz

I didn't want to attach the SnowIsh icon archives because of their sizes (6 MB and 9 MB), but they are found easily on the web.

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StewPedassle

It seems weird to me that the bug is caused by files that are in the particular folder "$HOME/Theme/Icons"
I suppose you created this folder to keep your downloaded themes organized.
But I also suppose that you know that themes are "installed" either manually or automatically (through the "Appearance Preferences" interface in System > Preference > Appearance > Install) by extracting the compressed archive in the "$HOME/.icons" and "$HOME/.themes" directories, for icons and themes respectively.

That is, the "$HOME/Theme/Icons" folder should have no effect, it shouldn't be searched. Maybe it is searched by something else? An indexing service perhaps (trackerd)? A nautilus script? I don't know.

What I may suggest is to list the contents of "$HOME/.icons" and "$HOME/.themes" just to know what other themes there are. Maybe one of these other themes is causing the problem. Then you may backup these directories and delete them.
    tar cvzf Themes-Backup.tar.gz $HOME/.icons $HOME/.themes
    rm -rf $HOME/.icons/* $HOME/.themes/*

Then, without unpacking the tarballs, install the themes through the interface as mentioned above.

1. If all goes well, you can now use the themes, and you don't have to worry about unpacking anything in "$HOME/Theme/Icons"
2. Even if everything went well, you may unpack the archives in that folder and try to reproduce the bug. Then you can "play" with it and see if you can pinpoint the problem. Delete *.png files, leave the *.svg, etc.
3. You should get other people to reproduce this bug. Otherwise it can't be confirmed, and can't be called a real "bug". Maybe it is something very specific to your current setup.
4. I suggest you try this on the newer Ubuntu 9.04.

Chances are that this is magically solved by upgrading or by something silly like removing the "$HOME/.icons" folder and reinstalling the themes.