Bugzilla – Bug 115243
KDE update deletes icons.
Last modified: 2005-09-06 07:40:02 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.
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
(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 :)
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.