Gnome panel won't display SVG icons (F8)

[[H]omer]

For some reason, Gnome panel will not work with SVG icons or background images (Fedora 8, clean install).

I had this working under FC6, so what's changed and how do I fix it?

Anyone else experiencing this?

[jhhaynes]

I wonder if the problem I am having is the same as yours. I upgraded a system from F7 to F8. I have a logout
button in the panel, and after the upgrade instead of the logout icon I get one that looks like a dark photograph
with the lower right corner turned up. If I go to add a logout applet to the panel the menu shows the green running
man icon, but when I add it I still get the dark photo icon instead of the running man.

[jhhaynes]

Well I just looked this up on bugzilla and found bug 432245 seems to be on this topic.
If I made the top gnome panel size 47 pixels or less I get the green running man logout
icon. But if I make it bigger the icon turns into the dark photo with the lower right corner
turned up.

[jhhaynes]

And yet, on the same machine but another disk partition where I did an F8 install from scratch, I can
make the panel any size I want and the logout icon remains the green running man.