Broken icon theme handling in Nautilus 2.21.90 in Hardy

Thank you for your bug. Could you describe easy steps to trigger the issue? The ubuntu theme uses the gnome one as fallback but icons are correct there, is that specific to some themes?

I've been looking at this issue using gartoon, the reason why icons are not correct there is that nautilus switched to use the folder icon now for directories and the icon doesn't use those. You can have a list of icon names required on http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus/trunk/libnautilus-private/nautilus-icon-names.h. That's likely an icon theme issue and not a nautilus one

I think it's specific to LiNsta theme. But it worked fine with Nautilus 2.20 and regression happened with 2.21.6.

1. Please download LiNsta http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/LiNsta-icons?content=62759 and nuvoeXT 2: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/nuoveXT+2?content=56625 and Vista-Inspirate: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Vista-Inspirate?content=28352.

2. Extract to ~/.icons/

3. Modify ~/.icons/LiNsta-0.3/index.theme to have:
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Vista-Inspirate_1.0,gnome
[...]

4. Modify ~/.icons/Vista-Inspirate_1.0/index.theme
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=nuoveXT.2.2,nuoveXT-1.5,nuoveXT-1.4,nuoveXT-1.3,nuoveXT-1.2,nuoveXT-1.1,nuoveXT-1.0,gnome
[...]

5. Select System -> Preferences -> Apperance / Theme -> Custom... -> / Icons -> LiNsta-0.3

You will see NuvoeXT folder, computer and trashcan icons on desktop instead of . I also have a gnome-terminal launcher on desktop which icon is not show at all (shows default GTK+ folded paper page icon).

This is how desktop should look (shot from Nautilus 2.20).

This is how it looks with Nautilus 2.21.

It is worth noting, that I cannot scale-down customized folder icons (these big folder and box icons cannot be scaled down).

It is also worth noting, that I am using desktop_is_home_dir setting.

Oh. I see, that you commented in the mean-time.

I will see into the issue and let you know.

Yes, this is the issue for the folder icons.
Attached is a small script to fix the theme.

gnome-terminal launchel icon is still broken though.

I do have the icon in the theme:

smoku@wing:~$ grep Icon ~/gnome-terminal.desktop
Icon=gnome-terminal.png

smoku@wing:~$ ls ~/.icons/LiNsta-0.3/scalable/apps/gnome-terminal.png
/home/smoku/.icons/LiNsta-0.3/scalable/apps/gnome-terminal.png

not a nautilus bug closing

Could you please explain why this is not Nautilus bug?
The theme handling changes affect only the default iccons assigns. But does not explain why the desktop launchers icons are broken.

you should not describe several issues in the same bug to start. The bug you described was about directories having a wrong icons is a theme bugs and not a nautilus one, those don't use the current icon specification naming. There is a launcher issues too when those specify the fileformat to use, this one is a different bug and has been fixed to SVN since