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Calucinho

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Registered: 2014-12-05

Posts: 19

Icon changes for categories in kmenuedit do not stick

I am using KDE Plasma 5 as my desktop environment for Arch. I want to change some icons in K-menu. The problem I am facing is that icon changes for categories (using kmenuedit) do not stick. Icon changes for applications, however, do stick o_O

Is there another way to change icons (e.g. without kmenuedit by directly editing a file)?

Rog131

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Registered: 2015-08-23

Posts: 90

Re: Icon changes for categories in kmenuedit do not stick

There seems to be a read/write path bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345100.

The kmenuedit is writing the group/category information to the ~/.local/share/kf5-<category>.directory but the plasma is trying to read the information from the  ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/kf5-<category>.directory.

A workaround is to copy/link the '.directory' files to the ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/ and refresh the icon cache: 'kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental'

http://imgur.com/xB0akuI

Last edited by Rog131 (2015-09-25 18:28:32)