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.

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.

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/comments/4 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgnome/+bug/407621/comments/29

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.

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.

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

Issue 85 has been merged into this issue.

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