Gnome 2.6 bug? Theme installation is hosed

[MDesigner]

I'm having trouble installing icon themes. I open up the theme manager, go to icons, and click install.. choose a .gz or .bz2 file.. and it seems to work OK, I close the theme manager & load it again.. nothing. None of the icon themes I install ever show up.

Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug?

[rbrimhall]

This has never worked for me... just put them in /usr/share/icons and themes is /usr/share/themes and they show up... the theme installer puts them in a .gnome folder...

[bsm2001]

If you click the button to go to the theme folder then untar them and copy them to that folder it will show up in the available themes. same with icons.