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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: Hymer on November 29, 2018, 10:45:57 PM
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I have a vertical toolbar and it is possible to click, but the icons have disappeared.
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Welcome to the forum (finally)!
Well, they aren't completely invisible. But it looks like you have a theme or maybe desktop environment or GTK option which is substituting those light gray icons for the usual.
I'd better pay close attention to the answer here, since I'll be switching to Linux soon! Aside from trying a different environment, or maybe there's a theme choice, or other display choice you can make, I'm not sure how to fix it. But we definitely have other Linux Mint users who can help.
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I think I had this, too... Just change the icon theme (for the whole system...). Unfortunately, this f*** Ubuntu decided that Inkscape icons should be part of their GTK icon set, so they literally block you from using your own set - I was used to selecting it by saving it in the icons directory. Which doesn't work due to them obviously believing they need to decide this for me. That really sucks. Of course, you could also select all those icons one by one and delete them from the icon theme you use, so Inkscape has a chance to use its own ones.
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(The next version (1.0) will give you the icons back, btw.)
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So what happened again? Ubuntu decided to make Inkscape icons part of the Ubuntu GTK set? And what does that have to do with changing the Inkscape icons? Ubuntu can't decide how Inkscape uses Inkscape's icons, can it?
It doesn't sound like Ubuntu is respecting the Linux mantra of "choice".
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It can. Because Inkscape loads those icons before it considers its own ones. This is probably a bug in Inkscape, and an annoying oversight (or maybe it was intentional?) by Ubuntu.
Inkscape 1.0 will do better in that respect.