Description of problem: Pidgin's menu entry doesn't have an icon, it's blank. This affects the default theme as well as other preinstalled icon themes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0.0-0.36.beta7.fc7
Where are you seeing this? The pidgin in Applications -> Internet has a purple icon for me.
Applications->Internet in an F7 Test 4 install which was updated to the latest packages. I just tried a new user account and the icon is also blank there, I also tried removing and reinstalling pidgin and libpurple. This is odd because there seem to be icons under the hicolor icon directory, but they aren't being used for some reason. I suppose if it works for other people it's a random unsolvable bug on my end, it'll be blown away when I install F7 final anyway.
I believe that this is a bug in the pidgin RPM that will be fixed in the next update, but could you confirm that running the following commands as root fixes this issue?: touch --no-create /usr/share/icons/hicolor gtk-update-icon-cache --quiet /usr/share/icons/hicolor
Yes, that fixed it, though I also had to kill gnome-panel to get it to show up after that, for what it's worth.
Please See : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ScriptletSnippets/iconcache $ rpm -ql pidgin | grep hicolor /usr/share/icons/hicolor /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/pidgin.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/pidgin.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/pidgin.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/pidgin.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/pidgin.svg