Bug#253127: kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory <foo> group <bar> is not valid

[Dominique Devriese <devriese@kde.org>]

Phil Edwards writes:

> The patch only downgrades the severity of the diagnostic.  

That is not true.  The debugging output is disabled in non-debug
builds like debian's build, and the patch would thus make the output
go away.

> I'd still like to know whst an end-user like me can do to avoid
> /hundreds/ of these useless messages every time a KDE program is
> run, especially if there's not going to be another KDE release after
> the current 3.2.3, which doesn't have the patch.

See adeodato's reply.  You could also have edited kdebugrc yourself or
have changed the theme description file from the hicolor-icon-theme
stuff...

> What makes sn icon directory group "not valid"?  

For reference, the cause of this bug is that the authors of
hicolor-icon-theme have taken the liberty to invent group types that
kde did not expect.  See one of the three bugs that have been merged
with this one, the one I first filed against hicolor-icon-theme, but
which was later reassigned and merged here.

cheers
domi