kde & hicolor icon theme errors

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

When I start any kde app from a console, it spews out a heap of errors concerning invalid icons.

After a week my .xsession-errors file has grown to a mulitude of megabytes.

Can anybody confirm this error and propose a solution?
(I have it on multiple systems)

This is what my console outputs when i type kediti for instance:

firephoto · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 6:03 am Post subject:

Run this as user.

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

I'll try that!
thanks

Update:

Well at least it prevents stuffing my home dir with .xsession-errros.

Cool

firephoto · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject:

I imagine there's lots of people who use a login manager instead of just startx that have a very large ~/.xsession-errors file they might not be aware of. If you use startx then all the errors just get dumped in the terminal you startx from.

Jazz · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:21 pm Post subject:

Amazing, unmergein the x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme got me rid of most of the warnings, but i still some warnings :-

theDreamer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 118

read the post before your question...
"kdebugdialog --fullmode" solves the problem from it's source.
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aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

theDreamer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 118

i agree.
i didnt think this through...
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micron · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:06 am Post subject:

x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme isn't necessary for kde, so you can safely unmerge it.
I now it isn't a solution but it's better than ignoring the warnings... :roll:

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mahir · l33t Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 725 Location: London

i dont use kde
i think its crap
but thats not hte point.
...

i havent installed kde or the kde env.
i get this message

firephoto · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:48 pm Post subject:

If you haven't installed kde or the "kde environment" (QT?) then I don't see how it's possbile to be getting KDE warning/error messages??

kdebugdialog is part of kde-base/kdebase.

Perhaps you have some QT program installed that has the QT stuff built into it? There's a version of Skype that is like that so I'd guess there are other programs built that way. I don't really know though because of the "crap" I use for my desktop.

mahir · l33t Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 725 Location: London

aww
you admitt o using crap for your desktop.
that sso sweet.

mmmmmmmmmm ne who

right yea
so i get these errors with

quanta
and stuf like that

ne who

also -

how do i make kde progs use the redhat-artwork?

(bluecurve icons and stuff for tool bars etc)
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firephoto · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject:

Hmmm one must have some kde to run quanta.

mahir · l33t Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 725 Location: London

yea i have kdelibs and qt
but not kdebase.

drescherjm · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:51 pm Post subject:

drescherjm · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:58 pm Post subject:

firephoto · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:12 am Post subject:

Just thank the Gnome people for having to have the "stock" directories.

Apparently that's the onlr reason they are there and KDE doesn't need them so it spits out the warning about them. It looks like the fix has been commited to cvs for kde which simply just tells kde not to give a warning about this "new" icon theme directory structure. So making the warnings "go away" was the fix. There wasn't an actuall error due to the warning, just an annoyance.

No point in having things a standard way when you can purposly make things work and look different right? The Gnome vs. KDE has some deep roots it seems.

stef · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 93

for me this did the trick:

as root:
cd /usr/share/icons/hicolor/
cp index.theme index.desktop

( maybe you need this in some other subdirs of /usr/share/icons too ... )
... now there are no more complains about wrong icon dirs anymore.

But i dunno if this is a "right" way to fix the prob..

saosao9 · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 19

I agree, this worked for me too. Is this doing anything bad to KDE or Gnome?

jub0r · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:44 am Post subject:

I was having the same problem. Look at your index.theme in those directories. Mine were corrupt. Removed directories, re-installed, voila! I think it happened one of those times I upgraded my KDE. As much as I like KDE, I"m about to a point where I want to pitch it.

think-x · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 52 Location: UCSB

zaai · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 175

I unmerged gnome-icon-theme, after which no more messages appeared.
This leaves the hicolor theme in place.