Icons in ~/.icons folder do not show up

[erikdubois]

I have been at it for hours to understand an issue we have with the icons.
Not sure but I do believe this is an actual bug or more an improvement.

In ~/.icons I have dumped 104 icon themes with a total of 169942 icons. Just telling you this because maybe the sheer number may matter in your script.

These icons depend on the core icon themes in /usr/share/icons.
In the index.theme you will find this line (or similar)
Inherits=Sardi-Orb-Colora,Sardi,Numix-Circle,Numix,Papirus,Moka,Surfn,breeze,gnome,hicolor

If you select an icon theme from ~/.icons folder then it will look for Sardi-Orb-Colora,Sardi etc... BUT it will not find those in ~/.icons so it stops and the menu is broken. It should keep looking in /usr/share/icons for the missing themes. My guess the solution is in there to fix the solution with the broken icons.

Solution now

1. put all icons in ~/.icons
2. put all icons in /usr/share/icons

Tried to work with setting in config.pl as well (also with slash behind it)
icon_dirs_first => "$ENV{HOME}/.icons",

[trizen]

Thank you for taking the time in reporting this issue.

I decided to use the Gtk2 Perl module for resolving the absolute paths to icons, which should be a very robust solution, compared to the sketchy code in Linux::DesktopFiles.

Please try the latest commit and, if everything is OK, you may close this issue. Thanks again for the report.

[erikdubois]

Hi,
wanted to test it out and went to the AUR
There is no obmenu-generator-git there yet.
I saw you are maintaining the 0.71 version.
Could you consider making a git version?
Will test it now.

[erikdubois]

Error when asking to make icons piped or static
Obmenu-generator 0.71 is in place.
I replace /usr/bin/obmenu-generator with the one from github. I kept my own schema.pl and config.pl. Menu without icons still works.

making a static menu with icons just clears the menu.xml totally - no more menu's - blanco file

[trizen]

Thanks for testing the latest git version.

Make sure that Gtk2 module is installed (gtk2-perl). Additionally, to see what is really going on, please execute obmenu-generator -i -d in a terminal and post here the error messages, if any.

I will consider uploading a "-git" version of obmenu-generator to AUR, and also tagging a new version (once we are sure it's working correctly), but this may not happen very soon, unfortunately.

[erikdubois]

seems to work with gtk2-perl
make an aur package and I will ask the ArchLabs team to test a bit further
no error messages

[trizen]

Finally, a new version is here (https://github.com/trizen/obmenu-generator/releases/tag/0.80), which should fix this issue. If everything is OK, we can close this.

[erikdubois]

Hi trizen,
I am on the point of creating my own spinoff of ArchLabs named https://archmerge.com.
Very happy what you did with the code - svg's are incredibly fast - piped with icons
0-80-1

[trizen]

Hi Erik,
I'm very happy to hear that. I wish you all the best on your new project. 👍

[JuPlutonic]

Ok, gtk2 is a new dependency.
With old dependency Linux::DesktopFiles it always have issue Can't locate object method "get_icon_path" via package "Linux::DesktopFiles" at /opt/bin/obmenu-generator line 446.
Now when I installed gtk2-perl with cpan Gtk2 command the o-g working smoothly.