Re: Debian SID: KDE wont use Hicolor Icon Theme although its installed

[Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>]

Alle venerdì 26 giugno 2009, Juergen Hornung ha scritto:
> > Alle venerdì 26 giugno 2009, Juergen Hornung ha scritto:
> > > > Alle venerdì 26 giugno 2009, Juergen Hornung ha scritto:
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > > after a while of digging around why KDE4.2 wont display some KDE
> > > > > app
> > > >
> > > > icons,
> > > >
> > > > > its seems that
> > > > > KDE wont use the (installed) hicolor icon theme.
> > > > >
> > > > > How can I fix this?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > jeibie
> > > >
> > > > Have you chosen the right icon theme like Oxygen? What's the colour
> >
> > depth
> >
> > > > of your X? We
> > > > need more information to help you to address this problem.
> > >
> > > Oxygen Icon theme is default, X depth is 24.
> > > Applications, that have their app icon at /usr/share/icons/oxygen/....
> >
> > are
> >
> > > displayed correctly for example konqueror.
> > > But other programs as okular, kopete, ... are having their app icons
> > > only at /usr/share/icons/hicolor
> > > Of course hicolor Icon theme is installed!
> > > Creating a new system user at the same system doesnt help - the error
> > > is the same.
> > >
> > > Any tips?
> > >
> > > jeibie
> >
> > May I see a screenshot of your desktop?
> > Why that, and what special?
>
> I want to know how to check that /usr/share/icons/hicolor/.. is in the kde
> icons search path.
>
> Maybe you know how to do it, or someone else knows how to do it?

I think it's a standard path and if you open the appearance settings it should point 
straight there. If not, you could specify any position for custom and already installed 
themes.