missing icons in kde

numerodix · l33t Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 743 Location: nl.eu

After upgrading to 3.5.0 (and recently to 3.5.1), I notice the icons are generally missing. In the K-menu, every kde app has a missing icon. In the system tray, kde apps have icons missing. I suppose icons are installed by some package I'm probably missing (I've installed selected kde packages, not kde-meta), which one is it?

Oh and non-kde apps have icons displayed correctly.
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Zaventh · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 16

kdeartwork? Maybe kdegraphics?

i92guboj · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject:

kde-base/kdeartwork-iconthemes

numerodix · l33t Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 743 Location: nl.eu

i92guboj · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:53 am Post subject:

Maybe the problem is another and not a missign package. Have you tried to change the icon theme?

Maybe you are trying to use an svg theme but havent built the svg support into kdelibs... Just an idea.

unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 147

I feel your pain.

In late December I emerged world and lost all my png icons (I think) in the same- kmenu and kicker:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-418360.html

Digikam also broke:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-420495.html

It doesn't matter which version I try.

I spent hours (days?) trying to fix these 2 problems- which occurred on 2 separate identically configured machines btw- and I finally ran out of time. I've been living without digikam for over a month now and I'm very disappointed to hear that upgrading to 3.5.1 is likely not going to fix the problem.

numerodix · l33t Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 743 Location: nl.eu

unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 147

STILL broken for me. I just (1) rebuilt the toolchain (2) emerge -e system (3) emerge -e world and I still have no png icons in kmenu and kicker. And digikam is still broken. That's over 3 months and no resolution. No one else has had this problem?

funkmankey · Guru Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 304 Location: CH

yeah I have the same exact problem -- icons missing from kmenu, digikam does not work, kbuildsyscoca only returns errors.

rebuilt all kinds of stuff, still not sure what the hell is wrong.
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kastorff · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject:

Perhaps it's an icon theme that was installed in the prior version (pre-3.5), but not installed in the updated version (3.5.x)? Just a thought...
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unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 147

I'm using kde 3.4.3. And kde wasn't one of the things that got upgraded for me when this happened over 3 months ago. See the thread above for the list:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-420495.html

Everything I'm using is stable, except what's absolutely necessary. I think less than 10 packages now are ~x86.

Additionally like numerodix said above, the icons are there, it's just that KDE doesn't know how to find them (apparently). This may or may not be related to the second problem- broken digikam. Why digikam of all things? I only have a little space left on my 500M compact flash and I'd like to download them soon.

Gridmark · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 22 Location: Dallas

unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 147

I finally figured this out, 4.5 months after the problem started <drumroll> apparently it's because I was using tcsh instead of bash. I chsh to bash and now the icons have reappeared and digikam works. Hope this helps someone else.