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Thorned_Rose

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2015-12-30

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[SOLVED] KDE Plasma broke .desktop icon key entries

I gave KDE Plasma a go and decided I didn't like it. I went back to Deepin, only now some of my desktop entries (/usr/share/applications/) are missing their icons. I have a look at the .desktop keys and see they now contain icons for KDE

e.g.

Icon=/usr/share/icons/default.kde4/base/48x48/status/printer-printing.png

Because I uninstalled Plasma, of course that icon no longer exists.
So I have a whole bunch of desktop entries with missing icons and no idea what the defaults for them were -_-
Changing the icon theme makes no difference on missing icons either
If I completely remove the Icon= key, then of course the icon defaults to the currently set theme's "application-default-icon".
Is there a way to easily restore the original/default icon for all the .desktop files with an icon still pointing to KDE icons? Or am I going to have to go through each single one?

TIA!

Last edited by Thorned_Rose (2017-06-18 00:52:05)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma broke .desktop icon key entries

Any changes to /usr/share/applications files should be stored in ~/.local/share/applications. Remove these per-user .desktop files to restore system defaults.

If you think that the /usr/share/applications files have been modified, check which package owns them with 'pacman -Qo', then check whether these files have been modified with 'pacman -Qkk $pkg'.

EDIT: removed 'smart'phone inserted spaces in commands

Last edited by WorMzy (2017-06-18 00:42:33)

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Thorned_Rose

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2015-12-30

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma broke .desktop icon key entries

Nevermind, I found the ones with missing icons were uninstalled apps where the .desktop icons still remained. Other .desktop entries have broken icons for another reason I am yet to work out Although I'm still not sure why some were changed in the /usr/share/applications/ directory to KDE ones.

Last edited by Thorned_Rose (2017-06-18 00:42:26)

Thorned_Rose

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2015-12-30

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma broke .desktop icon key entries

Thanks WorMzy. There were so many that were broken that I just blitzed my ~/.local/share/applications/ directory. It's easier to customise my menu at this point by starting over than it is to edit each of the broken .desktop files.