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RounakDutta

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From: West Bengal, India

Registered: 2022-02-11

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[SOLVED] Unknown Open Collaboration Service API error in kde plasma

I am using the kde plasma desktop environment. Whenever I search for cursor themes / icon themes. I get this error - https://i.imgur.com/ZkvS0Up.png

I searched the arch forum and got this thread - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=257236
It said that setting the "LANG" variable to "en_US.UTF-8" will work . So instead of launching the system settings application from terminal everytime I want to change icons/themes. I thought it is better to use the "/etc/locale.conf" file. So I did this -

[rounak@archissexy ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_IN.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_IN.UTF-8
[rounak@archissexy ~]$ 

Now the reason I used the LC_TIME locale is because I live in India and here we follow the 'DD/MM/YYYY' format ( whereas in US they follow the 'MM/DD/YYYY' ) and whenever I look at the date it creates a lot of confusion.
After changing the locale. I rebooted my pc but it didn't work out for me

Can anyone help me on this?

Last edited by RounakDutta (2022-07-15 04:33:06)

twelveeighty

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Re: [SOLVED] Unknown Open Collaboration Service API error in kde plasma

So instead of launching the system settings application from terminal everytime I want to change icons/themes

But you fail to mention whether or not the documented workaround itself works for you. What happens if you revert your configuration changes and actually perform the action from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2027125?

RounakDutta

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From: West Bengal, India

Registered: 2022-02-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Unknown Open Collaboration Service API error in kde plasma

So instead of launching the system settings application from terminal everytime I want to change icons/themes

But you fail to mention whether or not the documented workaround itself works for you. What happens if you revert your configuration changes and actually perform the action from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2027125?

Yes launching <i>systemsettings</i> from the terminal fixes my problem "temporarily" . But I want to make the changes permanent.

Last edited by RounakDutta (2022-07-14 17:30:42)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Unknown Open Collaboration Service API error in kde plasma

There can be a bug in how the locale options of plasma are applied, try removing ~/.config/plasma-localerc or editing it so that the proper locale is persisted in that file.

RounakDutta

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From: West Bengal, India

Registered: 2022-02-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Unknown Open Collaboration Service API error in kde plasma

There can be a bug in how the locale options of plasma are applied, try removing ~/.config/plasma-localerc or editing it so that the proper locale is persisted in that file.

Thanks a lot !! I was curious to see what was there in the file. After catting the file I got this

[Formats]
LANG=en_IN.UTF-8

I deleted the file and it worked   -

[rounak@archissexy ~]$ cat ~/.config/plasma-localerc 
[Formats]
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[rounak@archissexy ~]$ 

Marking the post as solved.

Last edited by RounakDutta (2022-07-15 04:32:33)