Oh yes, you will need to invalidate both caches. I guess the shell can keep a file monitor on the icons dir and invalidate when it changes. On Wednesday, 19 June 2013, Walter Bender wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Daniel Narvaez <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez@gmail.com')">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > About the cache, did you try > > <a href="https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkIconTheme.html#gtk-icon-theme-rescan-if-needed" target="_blank">https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkIconTheme.html#gtk-icon-theme-rescan-if-needed</a> Tried that. Sugar seems to cache its icons separately from GTK. There used to be a cache file, but now I think it is all in memory. I need to dig deeper. -walter > > > On Wednesday, 19 June 2013, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> Here are some thoughts about the custom icon patch: >> >> (1) if we prepend ~/.sugar/icons to the theme icon path, then anything >> in that path will be used (as long as we flush the cache) as per >> dnarvaez's comment on the patch >> (2) if we have a sugar activity for selecting svg files (from the >> journal and some samples) and loading the selected file as >> computer-xo.svg into ~/.sugar/icons then we are done. >> >> #1 is a two-line addition to jarabe/main.py >> >> icons_path = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.sugar', 'icons') >> Gtk.IconTheme.get_default().prepend_search_path(icons_path) >> >> #2 is similar to what you already did for the cpsection, only it is a >> stand-alone activity similar to xo-colors >> >> We can use Turtle Art and other activities to generate SVGs. (The old >> version of xo-colors let you edit the XO icon... with revisiting in >> this context.) >> >> We need to figure out how to flush the icon cache. >> >> regards. >> >> -walter >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> > > > > -- > Daniel Narvaez > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </blockquote> -- Daniel Narvaez