gtk-missing-image is missing

This icon is not part of the xdg icon scheme. The programs in question are at fault in this case, as they don't depend on either gnome-icon-theme or humanity-icon-theme. Alternatively they could use the standard "unknown" icon that all xdg-compliant icon themes have.

wouldn't that mean, the user needs to use another theme to use the program?

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use kde with oxygen theme.
try to start blueman-applet.

> LANG=C blueman-applet
Loading configuration plugins
Using gconf config backend
Stale PID, overwriting
Using gconf config backend
_________
Load (/usr/bin/blueman-applet:117)
['TransferService', 'StandardItems', 'PowerManager', 'PulseAudio', 'StatusIcon', 'KillSwitch', 'AuthAgent', 'PPPSupport', 'Networking', 'NetUsage', 'SerialManager', 'Headset', 'DhcpClient', 'Indicator', 'NMPANSupport', 'DBusService', 'NMDUNSupport', 'Menu', 'DiscvManager', 'RecentConns']
_________
__load_plugin (/usr/bin/blueman-applet:182)
loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.StatusIcon.StatusIcon'>
_________
__load_plugin (/usr/bin/blueman-applet:182)
loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.DBusService.DBusService'>
_________
__load_plugin (/usr/bin/blueman-applet:182)
loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.Menu.Menu'>
_________
__load_plugin (/usr/bin/blueman-applet:182)
loading <class 'blueman.plugins.applet.PowerManager.PowerManager'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/blueman/plugins/AppletPlugin.py", line 105, in _load
    self.on_load(applet)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/PowerManager.py", line 37, in on_load
    self.item = create_menuitem(_("<b>Bluetooth Off</b>"), get_icon("gtk-stop", 16))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/blueman/Functions.py", line 171, in get_icon
    icon = ic.load_icon("gtk-missing-image", size, 0)
GError: Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme
_________
__load_plugin (/usr/bin/blueman-applet:182)
Failed to load PowerManager
Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme

[program exit]

 icon = ic.load_icon("gtk-missing-image", size, 0)
GError: Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme

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I have installed blueman on kubuntu. When trying to start it I got the gtk-missing-image is missing error report.

Solution is to install gnome-icon-theme. After that blueman started as expected. I believe this means that blueman should depend on gnome-icon-theme.

blueman packages with itself a bunch of icons, i'm sure it's much better to pack all dependent icons rather than link dependency to third party packet which is not obliged to carry required hardcoded images.

Confirm this bug on Kubuntu 13.04 - can't start blueman-applet.
sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme
don't solve the problem, I see the error:
Failed to load StandardItems
Icon 'gtk-missing-image' not present in theme

Did anybody know some solution for this issue?

Maybe this issue is the duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blueman/+bug/1037216 ?

Problem solved for me after going to System Settings - Application Appearance - GTK and changing Icon Themes - Fallback theme to GNOME (default was be Oxygen).