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Midori for Debian
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Missing Icons
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Based on conversation with the author, and the faq entries cited
below, I do not think Midori will be changed upstream to use only
"stock" GTK icons.

  * There are missing icons/ warnings

    The set of themed icons Midori can use is very limited. For
    instance icons for a new tab or the throbber are not guaranteed to
    be available. To fix this, install a Freedesktop.org spec
    compliant icon theme, such as Tango or Gnome, or one that is
    compatible with these.

  * Tweaking Midori on the Gtk level

    If you don't have a desktop application that takes care of Gtk
    settings or if your interface doesn't support a particular
    feature, you can modify any settings easily manually by specifying
    them in a text file called ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:

    Use Tango as a fallback for your icon theme:

    gtk-icon-theme = "MySuperFancyTheme"
    gtk-fallback-icon-theme = "Tango"

  -- http://wiki.xfce.org/midori_faq

Therefore I will add document this state of affairs in README.Debian
and add the following header to debian/control:

    Recommends: gnome-icon-theme

This seems to be in line with what other packages currently do
(e.g. galeon).

I am choosing not to include a whole bunch of alternatives in the
Recommendation because I don't want to have to keep that list of
alternatives accurate.

 -- Trent W. Buck <[email protected]>, Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:23:33 +1100