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After a failed upgrade to kde 4.3 beta through KDEmod I removed all of the KDEmod stuff and reinstalled arch kde 4.2. But now many applications are missing their icons. Anybody has an idea on how to fix this issue? Thanks
P.S. I already tried removing all of the configuration files and already removed every last trace of kdemod stuff.
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I'd guess that if you remove all the apps you installed (KDE 4.3 beta, KDEmod) and install KDE 4.2, everything should be in place. Did you remove KDE 4.3 beta or "upgrade" to KDEmod?
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Yeah that's what I did, I removed absolutely everything related to KDEmod(beta or normal) and installed KDE 4.2(from arch). But yet Im missing many application icons.
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But I was asking did you remove also KDE 4.3 beta because it may interfere w/ KDE 4.2. Removing everything KDE related - no matter mod or no mod - could solve the problem.
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Yeah I also removed the beta. I currently only have arch kde on my system.
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Similar problem http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=72172
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Someone in the kde-svn thread said this helped them: xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor (presumably as sudo/root, since it just errors out for me as a user, and seems to work as sudo)
Assuming hicolor-icon-theme and kdebase-runtime-icons/oxygen-icons (depending on your kde version.. i dont use the normal arch one, so I couldn't tell you) and the same problems occur on a newly made arbitrary testing user (ie its NOT a user profile issue.. you mayve removed all the usual culprit files, but there COULD be something else there screwing it up we're not aware of..), that might help you.. if not, I've no more ideas ;(
Last edited by FrozenFox (2009-05-30 22:46:44)
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Hi! Today I nuked my KDE arch (I removed everything KDE related even qt) installation and installed KDEmod (unstable) and finally got my icons back.
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@climatewarrior
Thanks for letting know the people from the other thread.
Glad you got it working.
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Hey all, i got the same strange behavior after trying to update to kdemod unstable 4.3 nad move back to kdemod stable.
After unsuccessfully trying to fix it with the given hints i managed to get "all" icons back.
What i did:
Removing the oxgen icon pakage: pacman -Rd kdemod-kdebase-runtime-icons
After that the oxygen icon dir was still there, so i moved it to get a fresh dir after reinstalling the above removed pakage.
cd /usr/share/icons/
mv oxygen oxygen_old
Removing the hicolor icon theme: pacman -Rd hicolor-icon-theme
After that you get a funny looking desktop, cause all icons are gone.. the questionmark icon too.
Then i cleared my pkg cache: pacman -Scc
After that i reinstalled the above removed pakages.
pacman -S kdemod-kdebase-runtime-icons
pacman -S hicolor-icon-theme
Now all my icons are back without one exception.. the settings icon in the kde menu.. it shows the icon from the monochrome icon theme.. strange but i can live with it.
Hop this helps some of you
cheers
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