Icon theme and Cinnamon

[jounathaen]

The Icons on the Buttons don't show up under Cinnamon.
Installed on a fresh Virtual Machine running Linux Mint 17.3 - Cinnamon:

This is how it should look like:

On a fresh Virtual Machine running Linux Mint 17.3 - KDE, it works fine.

[jounathaen]

Ok,the SVG Module was not Installed. But with the module installed, I "only" get the non-system-theme Icons.

[annejan]

Looking at Cinnamon issue . .
Can reproduce this on a clean mint install . . looking to fix (and addding SVG as dependency to README etc) . .

It seems this is an issue with the default theme support in Cinnamon (gtk2)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications#QGtkStyle

By default it seems there are 3 icon sets installed, High-Contrast, Mint-X and gnome.
Of these the Mint-X seems to be the one that should be used.
For some reason it seems Qt doesn't "get" that it should be used (hence uses fallback).

Looking into environment variables and what-not to fix this . .
It does seem that "Show icons on buttons" setting is normally off on Cinnamon, but we are not using that hint in QtPass (except for in the profiles configuration tab) . .

[annejan]

I've found the trick @jounathaen :D

export DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome

Added to FAQ

Before:

After:

[annejan]

Mmmm wait .. this is the wrong theme still . . looking further . .

[jounathaen]

That is a nice workaround, but in my first pull request, I somehow managed
to do this in another way. (Using the Cinnamon Icons, Not the Gnome ones).
Unfortunately I can't remember how I've done that. When I find out again,
I'll Post it of course. Best Regards!

[annejan]

Checked out your commit jounathaen@f7e9151 (on clean Cinnamon Mint)
Unfortunately (or possibly fortunately) it doesn't show any icons . .
Neither does your master . .

So it must be an environment trick . .

export DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome
export GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Mint-X/gtk-2.0

Gives me yet another icon theme . . which is kinda sleek but still not what we want . .

....

[jounathaen]

Ohh good. These f#@?¥ Dependencies. Would a precompiled binary help, or is
the icon set choosen at compile time?

[annejan]

The fallback icons (svgs) are compiled in, the freedesktop theme is loaded at runtime @jounathaen
So that's even "worse" or "better" than compile time 😁

Between my tests I have not recompiled, just set different env flags and (re)started qtpass

[jounathaen]

Ok, I got a solution.
The default Qt Version on Linux mint is 5.2 or something like that. When installing Qt 5.5 manually from qt.io, then it works!