Bug 115243

Summary:	KDE update deletes icons.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	John Hillier <imaginebox>
Component:	KDE	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	SuSE Pro 9.3
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Description John Hillier 2005-09-04 22:12:47 UTC

After updating KDE to v3.4.2 via YAST Source mirror (several tried) the desktop
is missing icons for several applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.
Attempts to locate the missing icons via KMenu "Menu Editor" failed due to the
application icons are no longer found on the system. KDE developers are aware of
the bug report but have been redirecting posters to Novell as they believe it's
a Novell issue with packaging the binary from source. Note: A clean install of
SUSE Linux was done and the same issue was experienced after updating KDE to
v3.4.2 using a differant mirror. Reinstalling the applications does not resolve
the issue as the application shortcut icon remains blank.

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2005-09-05 07:36:03 UTC

they are in /usr/share/pixmap - and stock KDE is not looking there. As we use 
a different way to bind them in the system with our new KDE packages, you 
don't see them. But then again we don't provide maintaince - the KDE for older 
distributions are supported as is, and it's stock KDE that doesn't 
find /usr/share/pixmaps

Comment 2 John Hillier 2005-09-05 22:57:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> they are in /usr/share/pixmap - and stock KDE is not looking there. As we use 
> a different way to bind them in the system with our new KDE packages, you 
> don't see them. But then again we don't provide maintaince - the KDE for older 
> distributions are supported as is, and it's stock KDE that doesn't 
> find /usr/share/pixmaps 

Sorry for my ignorance but what do you mean by "stock KDE"? I've updated KDE in
the past using YAST Source mirror links provided on the Novell site and never
had any issue as experienced with the KDE 3.4.2 update. Even though the KDE
developers are passing the issue back to Novell which I thought was unusually I
thought it would be wise to let your bug team know about it just in case it was
a compiling issue with the source code that has caused this. Since several
mirrors produced the same result my other question is who is compiling the KDE
packages, Novell or a third party? As for the link to the pixmaps, thanks :)

Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2005-09-06 07:40:02 UTC

it's within the rights of KDE to ignore /usr/share/pixmaps as there is a XDG 
standard where to install application icons. As for SUSE we decided to provide 
this kind of backward compat, but we changed the way it's done for SUSE 10.0, 
so the supplementary packages on the mirrors are broken in this aspect now.