KDE 4 Icons Missing?

PolywogSys · #1 17th July 2008, 02:33 PM

I just installed F9. Apart from the fact that I KDE 4 is sooooo slow that I am actually contemplating (for the first time since 1997) a switch away from it (Please no flame wars). In any case, when I start "systemsettings" the replacement for KDE control panel, I notice that a lot of the icons are missing. Switching icon themes doesn't help... it actually makes it worse. Does anyone know where I can start to look?

PolywogSys · #2 17th July 2008, 05:16 PM

Doing a reinstall of the icon themes seems to have fixed some of the problems.

sudo yum -y reinstall oxygen-icon-theme-4.0.5-2.fc9.noarch fedora-icon-theme-1.0.0-1.fc8.noarch bluecurve-icon-theme-8.0.2-1.fc9.noarch hicolor-icon-theme-0.10-4.noarch xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.2-1.fc9.noarch gnome-icon-theme-2.22.0-6.fc9.noarch

PolywogSys · #3 17th July 2008, 05:31 PM

I keep deleting my icons on the desktop, and after logging out and logging back in, they reappear!! Since reinstalling the packages, I get questionmarks all over the place!! WTF.

I am definitely two seconds away from XFCE

***Hlingler*** · #4 17th July 2008, 07:33 PM

Maybe you should consider updating to the latest available "testing" packages, or even "rawhide". Personally, I also tried the "unstable" packages from kde-redhat.org on my second "test" F9 install, but haven't gotten a chance to really test them out: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

Don't let the "unstable" tag scare you (too much) - they're more like 'rawhide' or 'testing' level packages. Besides, that guy does the Livna (and maybe even some of the Fedora Project ?) KDE packages anyway.

We've had some other discussions about KDE4 here - search around the forums....

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PolywogSys · #5 18th July 2008, 10:23 PM

Yeah that's ok.I mentioned to someone else here, that KDE 4 is soooo different, and not up to par. Doing focus-follows-mouse crashes KDE. In fact, I have to logout go on console rm -rf ~/.kde, then I can login to KDE again. Sounds are not working as they supposed to... I turned them off.. yet, they continue to sound. The general UI experience has been unpredictable. I do one thing, and something happens, and just when I think I am doing the same thing, something different happens (particularly with the menu). Digital artifacts are all over my screen when I close windows. I delete icons from my desktop, and they reappear when I log back in, etc.

KDE 4 is not up to par. It's been the worst 24 hours of my life... I am using XFCE for now... well, it was a good 10 years while it lasted. I'll check in from time to time with KDE to see the progress.

But it's going to take some getting used to XFCE because I literally have to figure out how to do my work at work again, b/c of all the shortcuts and key press shortcuts, icons, etc I had configured in KDE. But the thing is that at least I can use XFCE, which is more than I can say for KDE4.

I guess the alternative is to download the sources foe KDE 3.5 and recompile from scratch into /usr/local/kde, and editing ~/.xinitrc Actually, that's a good idea.

I never thought of that.

***Hlingler*** · #6 19th July 2008, 01:58 PM

Well, FWIW, I see that this morning, the kde-redhat project has pushed a large number of KDE-related packages into testing. I, for one, have very little to lose by testing them out, so I just pulled the trigger on YUM....

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