[gpodder-devel] Old Icon Theme support (was: Re: new version downloads new episodes, but screen empty)
- From: thp at perli.net (Thomas Perl)
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:23:59 +0200
Hello, Richard!
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:15 -0500, richardvoigt at gmail.com wrote:
> On 8/7/07, Thomas Perl <thp at perli.net> wrote:
> Hello, Richard!
>
> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 19:52 -0500, richardvoigt at gmail.com
> wrote:
> > You probably want to emit an appropriate warning before
> eating the
> > exception. Notably, I had gotten two distinct exceptions
> while
> > troubleshooting:
>
> >From your (very good!) bug report, screenshot and patch, I
> now suspect
> that you are probably using an old version of the
> gnome/hicolor icon
> theme, which does not yet include the "applications-internet"
> icon.
> Because this icon is loaded when gPodder generates the
> ListStore for the
> channel list, this could make the channel list not initialize
> properly.
>
> Please have a look in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ to find a
> globe-like
> icon that looks like the globes on the left side of this
> screenshot:
>
> I'll take a look when I get back home, but I suspect I haven't an
> older version either. I use kde, not gnome.
That could also be the reason. Anyway, please have a look which icon
names are available to use as a fallback icon, as I'd rather try to load
other icons instead of displaying no icon at all.
> http://spock.thpinfo.com/~thp/images/gpodder-richard-voigt.png
>
> Then, try to replace the "applications-internet" string in the
> corresponding function with the base name of your globe-like
> icon. If
> gPodder works for you now, I can come up with some fallback
> code to use
> the old icon name instead of the new one. Just tell me the
> base name of
> the icon you've found to be working.
>
> The last patch I sent includes what I believe to be a better fallback
> -- a try/except around the icon loading code. No matter how many
> secondary icon names you have, someday they will all be missing. And
> of course, the failover to an alternate icon wouldn't solve the
> problem of cover art with an unrecognized format.
Of course, I'd additionally include the try..except block around the
icon loading code, but as I said above, falling back to a similiar icon
would be another thing I'd like to add to this snippet, as displaying
the globe icon would make the interface look like it should.
Thanks,
Thomas
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