On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:

> On 06/09/13 19:22, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>
>> OK, let's see if we can get to the bottom of this. Here's how the first
>> five items on the main-window Help menu have been specified in the gretl
>> code to date:
>>
>> 1. ["manual" icon] Command reference
>> 2. [no icon]       Function reference
>> ----
>> 3. [PDF icon] User's Guide
>> 4. [PDF icon] Command reference
>> 5. [PDF icon] Keyboard shortcuts
>>
>> (And that's how I'm seeing them, on all the various gretl builds I've
>> worked with.)
>>
>> But here's how they look for Ignacio (gretl CVS compiled on Ubuntu 12.04):
>>
>> 1. [gretl icon] Command reference
>> 2. [no icon]    Function reference
>> ----
>> 3. [gretl icon] User's Guide
>> 4. [gretl icon] Command reference
>> 5. [gretl icon] Keyboard shortcuts
>>
>> That is, both the "manual" icon and the PDF icon are replaced by the
>> generic gretl icon, destroying the visual distinction between the two help
>> formats.
>>
>> Now, I have no idea why the menu looks like that for Ignacio. Is anyone
>> else seeing the same? Just maybe, the xpm files that underlie the gretl
>> icons have got jumbled somehow. It might be worth deleting all the .xpm
>> files in the "pixmaps" directory in the gretl source tree and reloading
>> them from the CSV repository, and see if that makes any difference.
>
> I did it.
>
>>
>> While I don't understand the source of the incorrect icons in Ignacio's
>> build, I decided to make a small change in CVS anyway. Since all the PDF
>> files have the same icon, it seemed inconsistent that entry 2 didn't have
>> the same icon as entry 1. In addition the "manual" icon is not all that
>> great, so I've replaced it with the stock help icon. So in CSV as of now
>> here's how those 5 items should look:
>>
>> 1. [help icon] Command reference
>> 2. [help icon] Function reference
>> ----
>> 3. [PDF icon] User's Guide
>> 4. [PDF icon] Command reference
>> 5. [PDF icon] Keyboard shortcuts
>
> And now this is what I see:
>
> 1. [help icon] Command reference
> 2. [help icon] Function reference
> ----
> 3. [gretl icon] User's Guide
> 4. [gretl icon] Command reference
> 5. [gretl icon] Keyboard shortcuts

So is this what's going on: whenever we specify a "native gretl" icon for
a menu item, you're getting the gretl (the girl) icon, regardless of which
one was specified? What do you get as the icon for "Send to..." under the
main-window File menu? That's a gretl-supplied icon, it should appear as a
little envelope. (I notice from your screenshot, however, that the PDF
icon is showing up OK on the toolbar at the bottom of the main window.)

> In the output of 'make' the unique reference I see about the pixmap directory
> is about gretl-logo.xpm. It seems that this icon is being copied to the
> the directory where gretl is installed to. The line is:
>
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../pixmaps/gretl-logo.xpm /opt/gretl/share/gretl
>
> but I don't see anything about the file ../pixmaps/mini.pdf.xpm
> It seems it is not being copied.

It doesn't have to be copied anywhere. Pixmaps such as mini.pdf.xpm are
"built in" -- they're included in gui2/toolbar.c and become part of the
program.

So far, I'm completely mystified. I did recently try building CVS gretl on
Ubuntu (an older version, 10.10) and the icons come out as intended.

Just in case it matters, are you building against gtk 2 or gtk 3?
(The default is gtk 2 but there's an --enable-gtk3 option to configure.)
And what does the relevant one of the following commands show?

pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
pkg-config --modversion gtk+-3.0

Allin
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