[gentoo-user] icons and KDE

[gentoo-user] icons and KDE

[»Q«]

Yesterday, I went from kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.5-r1 to -5.6.5,
after which I am not seeing nearly as many icons as I used to.  A lot
of other KDE packages were upgraded as well, and I don't know where to
start with troubleshooting.

In Dolphin, I no longer see icons for flac or mp3 files, just blank
space where an icon should be.  I haven't checked other file types.

I have a panel with several Quicklaunch widgets.  There, I see icons
for many of the launchers, but not others -- I just see blank space
where they should be.  Clicking the blank space does launch the
program.  Normally, the dialog brought up by 'edit launcher' shows the
icon for its .desktop file and lets me click on the icon to change it.
Now, the dialog does show the icon, but it's not clickable so it's not
editable.

Re: [gentoo-user] icons and KDE

[Stroller]

> On 28 Jul 2016, at 20:22, »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Yesterday, I went from kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.5-r1 to -5.6.5,
> after which I am not seeing nearly as many icons as I used to.  A lot
> of other KDE packages were upgraded as well, and I don't know where to
> start with troubleshooting.
> 
> In Dolphin, I no longer see icons for flac or mp3 files, just blank
> space where an icon should be.  I haven't checked other file types.


The place to start with troubleshooting is with some creative investigation.

`genlop -l --date "2016/07/28"` will show you all packages installed in the last 2 days - grep the output for "icon" and "theme".

Use `eix -I icon` to see what relevant packages are installed on your system. Now the same for `eix -I theme`.

If any of the installed icon or theme packages have not been updated in the last 2 days, update them.

I speculate that kde-plasma/plasma-desktop depends on packages X and Y, and between -5.5.5 and -5.6.5 some icons were moved from one package to the other.

Surely there are things you can try before posting here. I feel unkind saying this, so I apologise, but at the least you could have posted a list of the packages that you installed yesterday. 

Half the time I sit down to ask a question here, I solve it myself during the process of documenting the bug to explain my problem to the list (see ESR's "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"). It's appropriate to work out what installed packages might be relevant, update them to the latest versions, and show the list that you've done this.

I think that if none of this works, it would be sensible to see if you can downgrade some relevant the packages that you installed yesterday (i.e. those with "icon" or "theme" in the name), and see if this reinstates your visual file-type portrayals. This is a bit more work, but it might document the problem sufficiently that you can document the bug at b.g.o. and help others.

Stroller

[gentoo-user] Re: icons and KDE

[»Q«]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 14:11:58 +0100
Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> > On 28 Jul 2016, at 20:22, »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Yesterday, I went from kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.5-r1 to -5.6.5,
> > after which I am not seeing nearly as many icons as I used to.  A
> > lot of other KDE packages were upgraded as well, and I don't know
> > where to start with troubleshooting.
> > 
> > In Dolphin, I no longer see icons for flac or mp3 files, just blank
> > space where an icon should be.  I haven't checked other file
> > types.  
> 
> 
> The place to start with troubleshooting is with some creative
> investigation.
> 
> `genlop -l --date "2016/07/28"` will show you all packages installed
> in the last 2 days - grep the output for "icon" and "theme".
> 
> Use `eix -I icon` to see what relevant packages are installed on your
> system. Now the same for `eix -I theme`.
> 
> If any of the installed icon or theme packages have not been updated
> in the last 2 days, update them.
> 
> I speculate that kde-plasma/plasma-desktop depends on packages X and
> Y, and between -5.5.5 and -5.6.5 some icons were moved from one
> package to the other.

The file-type icons are still be where they should be, but for some
reason they were no longer associated with their respective
mime types.  I've now solved the problem for them by going to the 'file
association' part of system settings and editing the icons for the mime
types which were missing icons.

The program icons which do not show up in the Quicklaunches haven't
changed on my system.  They also don't show up in the Kmenu, which uses
the same .desktop files -- I didn't realize that before because I
rarely look at the menu.  AFAICS, all the icons that no longer show up
in the menu or the launchers are in /usr/share/pixmaps/.  I can use
kmenuedit, which I think edits the .desktop files, to select the icons
which should be displayed, but they're still not displayed.

> Surely there are things you can try before posting here. I feel
> unkind saying this, so I apologise, but at the least you could have
> posted a list of the packages that you installed yesterday. 

Just the ones with 'theme|icon':

 kde-frameworks/breeze-icons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/oxygen-icons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kemoticons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kiconthemes-5.23.0

All the packages:

 kde-frameworks/extra-cmake-modules-5.23.0
 media-libs/libv4l-1.10.1
 kde-frameworks/breeze-icons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/oxygen-icons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/karchive-5.23.0-r1
 kde-plasma/breeze-gtk-5.6.5
 kde-frameworks/kitemmodels-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kdoctools-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/threadweaver-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/attica-5.23.0
 kde-plasma/kdecoration-5.6.5
 kde-frameworks/kimageformats-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kjs-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kwayland-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kguiaddons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kplotting-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kidletime-5.23.0
 kde-plasma/libkscreen-5.6.5
 kde-frameworks/ki18n-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kcoreaddons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kconfig-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kwidgetsaddons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kwindowsystem-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kdbusaddons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kitemviews-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kcodecs-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kunitconversion-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/sonnet-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kcrash-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kcompletion-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kpty-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kjobwidgets-5.23.0
 kde-plasma/kwayland-integration-5.6.5
 kde-frameworks/kpackage-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kdnssd-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kglobalaccel-5.23.0-r1
 kde-frameworks/kservice-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kfilemetadata-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kjsembed-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/solid-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kauth-5.23.0-r1
 kde-frameworks/kdesu-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kemoticons-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kpeople-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kconfigwidgets-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/knotifications-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kiconthemes-5.23.0
 kde-plasma/kwrited-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/polkit-kde-agent-5.6.5
 kde-frameworks/ktextwidgets-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kwallet-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kxmlgui-5.23.0-r1
 kde-frameworks/frameworkintegration-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kbookmarks-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kio-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kinit-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kded-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kdeclarative-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kparts-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/knotifyconfig-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kxmlrpcclient-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kcmutils-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/knewstuff-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/baloo-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/khtml-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kdewebkit-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kdesignerplugin-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kross-5.23.0
 kde-apps/spectacle-16.04.3
 kde-plasma/oxygen-5.6.5
 kde-frameworks/ktexteditor-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/kdelibs4support-5.23.0-r1
 kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/kgamma-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/user-manager-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/kscreenlocker-5.6.5
 kde-apps/khelpcenter-5.6.2-r1
 net-libs/libproxy-0.4.13-r1
 kde-plasma/sddm-kcm-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/kde-gtk-config-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/kscreen-5.6.5-r1
 kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/systemsettings-5.6.5
 kde-frameworks/kactivities-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/plasma-5.23.0
 kde-frameworks/krunner-5.23.0
 kde-plasma/libksysguard-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/kinfocenter-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/milou-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/ksysguard-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/breeze-5.6.5-r1
 kde-plasma/kwin-5.6.5-r1
 kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.6.5.1-r2
 kde-plasma/kdeplasma-addons-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/khotkeys-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/powerdevil-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/kmenuedit-5.6.5
 kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.6.5

> Half the time I sit down to ask a question here, I solve it myself
> during the process of documenting the bug to explain my problem to
> the list (see ESR's "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"). It's
> appropriate to work out what installed packages might be relevant,
> update them to the latest versions, and show the list that you've
> done this.

I cannot work out what package upgrades might have caused any of this.
I thought it went without saying that I had looked at the list, but
obviously that was a bad thought.

> I think that if none of this works, it would be sensible to see if
> you can downgrade some relevant the packages that you installed
> yesterday (i.e. those with "icon" or "theme" in the name), and see if
> this reinstates your visual file-type portrayals. This is a bit more
> work, but it might document the problem sufficiently that you can
> document the bug at b.g.o. and help others.

All of those have had the previous versions removed from the tree, so
downgrading isn't a viable option for me.

[gentoo-user] Re: icons and KDE [solved]

[»Q«]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:22:52 -0500
»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:

> I have a panel with several Quicklaunch widgets.  There, I see icons
> for many of the launchers, but not others -- I just see blank space
> where they should be.

Also affected was the Kmenu.

Today, kde-plasma/plasma-integration was added as a dependency of
kde-plasma/plasma-workspace.  After emerging it and logging out and
back in, all the icons are displayed.