kate:5 on GNOME - no icons, no kio

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E-Razor · Post by **E-Razor** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 11:37 am

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!

Post by **asturm** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 12:11 pm

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

Try

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emerge -1 kinit

try again with kate, if it doesn't help, try

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emerge -1 kio-extras

E-Razor · Post by **E-Razor** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:18 am

Thanks.

I've done the emerge but still the same result

Post by **asturm** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:55 am

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

E-Razor · Post by **E-Razor** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:23 am

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

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15.08.0(4/15.08)

installed.

Kate is version

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15.08.1 (5)

.

I could imagine that I'm still missing some kde5 things which were not updated via emerge -uD world .

Post by **asturm** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 9:59 am

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.

mike155 · Post by **mike155** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 8:50 pm

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 · Post by **E-Razor** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:59 pm

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.