The XFCE4 Tango icon theme is incomplete or not all-sufficient. Some icons in the Application Menu are missing. For example: 1. Run Program... (the Application Finder) 2. Setting | Keyboard 3. Multimedia | Audio Mixer Also see my correspondence with Olivier Duchateau on the freebsd-xfce mailing list. The "Some icons in the Application Menu are missed" thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xfce/2013-November/thread.html#801a Fix: The right fix should probably be done by the upstream developers. But until then add following packages to the dependencies list of the Tango icon theme: 1. gnome-icon-theme 2. gnome-icon-theme-extras This will also add the Gnome icon theme. It will not hurt and will take only 10MB on the disk. It's better to have two complete icon themes than one incomplete. How-To-Repeat: Install following packages into a virgin Xorg only system: 1. xfce4 meta package 2. xfce4-xkb-plugin 3. xfce4-mixer And check the appropriate Application Menu icons.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->freebsd-xfce Over to maintainer (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool)
This issue won't be fixed by upstream, because they leave choice to users. Tango icons theme was chosen by us, because Rodent (default icons theme) was abandonned since 4.4 release. At the time, Tango was sufficient. Currently I'm working on next stable of Parole (Xfce's multimedia player) and main developers use symbolic icons. I asked to replace some icons from other, because Tango and GNOME don't have. So GNOME in future will not necessarily be right choice. -- olivier
A commit references this bug: Author: olivierd Date: Sat Jan 3 17:24:10 UTC 2015 New revision: 376142 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/376142 Log: - GNOME is default icons theme [1] - Sort OPTIONS_* - Rewrite description for applications - Replace x11/gdm by x11/slim Gdm requires x11/gnome-shell and others GNOME components. Some environments variables are also missing in xfce4-session - Bump PORTREVISION PR: 183690 [1] Requested by: Rostislav Krasny Changes: head/x11-wm/xfce4/Makefile head/x11-wm/xfce4/files/
A commit references this bug: Author: olivierd Date: Sat Jan 3 17:47:52 UTC 2015 New revision: 376144 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/376144 Log: - Gnome is default icons theme [1], not switched to Adwaita because Thunar and some Xfce's specific widgets still use stock icons (deprecated since GTK3 3.10, and not available in x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme) - Bump PORTREVISION PR: 183690 [1] Requested by: Rostislav Krasny Changes: head/mail/xfce4-mailwatch-plugin/Makefile head/misc/xfce4-appfinder/Makefile head/sysutils/xfce4-settings/Makefile head/x11/libexo/Makefile head/x11-wm/xfce4-panel/Makefile head/x11-wm/xfce4-panel/files/patch-plugins_actions_actions.c
A commit references this bug: Author: olivierd Date: Sat Jan 3 17:57:57 UTC 2015 New revision: 376146 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/376146 Log: - Gnome is default icons theme [1] Not switched to Adwaita, because Thunar and some Xfce's widgets still use stock item (deprecated since GTK 3.10, and not available in x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme) - Add support of GTK3 bookmarks files [2] - Bump PORTREVISION PR: 183690 [1] Requested by: Rostislav Krasny Obtained from: Xfce upstream repository [2] Changes: head/x11-fm/thunar/Makefile head/x11-fm/thunar/files/patch-thunar__thunar-gio-extensions.c head/x11-fm/thunar/files/patch-thunar__thunar-shortcuts-model.c head/x11-fm/thunar/files/patch-thunar__thunar-util.c
Committed!