I've been trying to install new icon packs for GNOME 2.10 (I'm running Fedora Core 4 and the clearlooks icons leave something to be desired...) but I can't get any of them to show up.

Basically, I extract the packs and then go to the GNOME theme manager -> theme details -> icons and the packs show up in the list but when I click on any of them all I get is the default GNOME theme. I've tried extracting the packs to ~/.icons and /usr/share/icons but neither location works. Is there something that I'm missing or is there another way to install icon packs without using the GNOME theme manager?

Thanks!

OK, I was able to fix this by changing what the icon themes inherit from in their index.theme files.

so now the inherits line looks like
Inherits=[fake theme name]

rather than the old
Inherits=gnome

this seems really weird, but it works so I won't complain