[Glade-users] Pixmap path - again

[Damon Chaplin]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:38 -0300, John Coppens wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I wrote a small GUI ('pfc3') in which I use custom icons (xpm's) for
> buttons in a tool bar. I installed those xpm's
> in /usr/local/share/pixmaps/pfc3/, and all was well...
> 
> Till I thought it'd be nice to have the same icons in the main menu, so I
> selected them in the menu editor. Strangely enough, this makes the
> run-time complain with:
> 
> ** (pfc3:8367): WARNING **: Couldn't find pixmap file: pfc3/reset.xpm
> 
> strace showed that the menu bar expects the menu item icons to be
> in /opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/pfc3 (this is where gtk is installed). I have
> to copy them to both locations, else either the buttons, or the menu
> complains.
> 
> Why is the application looking in two different directories?

I don't know. Is it a GTK+ or GNOME app? They find pixmaps in different
ways.

If you want to send me the XML file privately I'll try it out.

Damon