No Icons shown under Ubuntu 10.10

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Hi! I just discovered your applet. Looks nice, altough pretty basic ;)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install gnome-menu-file-browser-applet from ubuntu 10.10 repos.
2. Modify settings to whatever you want (enable applet-icon, enable view/hide 
thumbnails).

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: Icons are shown according to settings
Instead: I never see any icons.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
file-browser-applet 0.6.6 from ubuntu 10.10 repository. Using gnome & compiz.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by maxther...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 9:43

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Try this from the command line;

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true -t bool.

Let me know if it works.

Cheers,
a.

Original comment by bertol...@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2010 at 10:16

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Original comment by bertol...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 4:30

• Changed state: WontFix

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Why was this WontFix’d? I commented on this issue on Launchpad[1]. In case no 
one saw that bug, I’ll reiterate my comments here. There are two issues:

(1) The panel icon does not show up at all. I have tried changing themes, 
changing gconf settings (including buttons_have_icons), and changing the 
applet’s settings, but nothing seems to help.
(2) Icons don’t show up in the menu if menus_have_icons is disabled. This is 
a bug because standard behaviour is to show icons in menus no matter what if 
those icons represent objects, such as files and folders[2]. That is why the 
Places menu always has icons, regardless of menus_have_icons.

The screenshot illustrating both issues is attached.

Thank you.

[1] 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-browser-applet/+bug/624002/commen
ts/4
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgnome/+bug/407621/comments/29

Original comment by david.re...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 4:59

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• [Icon-less File Browser Applet.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/gnome-menu-file-browser-applet/issue-84/comment-3/Icon-less File Browser Applet.png)

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Hi there,

Setting menus_have_icons to false is the only way I can get both icons to 
disappear on my computers. Btw, the applet's top-level container (after the 
applet container itself) is a menu bar, so the above setting should rightfully 
affect whether the icon is shown. This setting also partially affects the gnome 
menu and menu bar. I say partially because setting menus_have_icons to false 
hides only some of the icons (on my computers at least). This is arguably a bug 
as well (that only some icons disappear).

Anyway, wrt showing the icons even when menus_have_icons is false because the 
"icons represent objects", I'm not sure if it's a good idea to ignore the 
user's preferences in this case. OTOH, if the Places menu does it, maybe the 
applet should do so as well just to be consistent (as it is similar in purpose 
to the places menu). I think that was a bad design decision by the main menu to 
ignore this setting.

I'll have to think about this one.

Original comment by bertol...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 4:29

• Changed state: New

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Hi.

It’s not an issue of ignoring the preference; it’s the current design 
guidelines both for GNOME and for Ubuntu. This was all ironed out when they 
changed the defaults for both those preferences to disabled. I linked earlier 
to Matthew Paul Thomas explaining that, but I’m sure I can find a more 
canonical source, if you need one.

As for the more pressing issue of no icon on the panel, do you have any 
suggestions for tracking down the cause of this problem? As I said, neither of 
those preferences does anything for me.

Original comment by david.re...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 7:25

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Fix in svn. Will close bug when I make a release.

Original comment by bertol...@gmail.com on 27 Nov 2010 at 1:31

• Changed state: Fixed

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Issue 85 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by bertol...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2011 at 1:20

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Sorry for issue #85. Your fix work nicely.
 gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true -t bool.

Original comment by madse...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2011 at 6:30