kate:5 on GNOME - no icons, no kio

E-Razor · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 67

Hi there!

I got a weird issue and would be thankful for any tips.

With the update to kde:5 / qt5 the editor kate has been updated on my system too. Strange thing is, if I start kate it does not have any icons (File / Save / Load) and also the file-select dialog is the default qt dialog, not the KDE dialog with all the KIO stuff (like sftp:// location).

Does anybody know what went wrong here?

I think it's about missing QT-Plugins?

Thanks a lot!

asturm · Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 12:11 pm Post subject:

We need to find out what's missing at runtime. I remember someone having the same problem in #kde...

Try

E-Razor · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 67

Thanks.

I've done the emerge but still the same result :-(

asturm · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:55 am Post subject:

It looks like a known problem, you can try the 'workaround' to verify it as seen in the following bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344149
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

E-Razor · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 67

still no luck on this one

all this kde4/5 stuff seems messy.

For example kdialog works fine since it still uses kde4/qt4. I got version

asturm · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 9:59 am Post subject:

Did you take a look at the bug?

kdialog is installed for compatibility of kde4-based packages, it is part of kde-frameworks for kf5-based packages. For kate:5 it does not matter that the versions don't match, but it's most likely a result of insufficient unmask on your side.
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

mike155 · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 8:50 pm Post subject:

I use XFCE as my main desktop and I upgraded to kate and konsole 15.08. Kate and konsole worked fine, but they didn't show any icons.

I had to install kde-plasma/oxygen in order to get icons.

I also had to install kde-plasma/systemsettings and run systemsettings5 in order to select proper themes and fonts for my GTK as well as for my KDE applications..

E-Razor · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 67

thanks for pointing out the packages

do you get the kde dialog when opening files or the default qt5?

Actually I've downgraded to kate:4 and everything works again.