Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce

[Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao <marcelpaulo@gmail.com>]

Hi again Ismail,

> > > >> I have recently switched from KDE to Xfce after an unpleasant encounter
> > > >> with KDE4 […]
> > > 
> > > >> I'm intrigued though by a quirk: some icons disappear from toolbars in
> > > >> KDE applications. I'm a die hard user of: amarok, k3b, k9copy,
> > > >> soundkonverter, kflickr and kmldonkey. In all these applications, icons
> > > >> disappeared from some toolbars. In amarok, for instance, the default
> > > >> bottom toolbar should include icons for Previous Track, Play/Pause,
> > > >> Stop, Next Track, but they don't show up: a thin vertical line replaces
> > > >> each one. Exactly the same thing happens with the toolbars in the other
> > > >> KDE application I tried.
> > > 
> > > >> This is my environment:
> > > >>
> > > >> Debian Lenny
> > > >> Kernel 2.6.26-2-686
> > > >> Xfce 4.4.2
> > > >> amarok 1.4.10

> […] Perhaps I should use brute force, purge all
> KDE applications, all traces of KDE libs, and start over. I'll post the
> results to make sure it stays as reference.

kcontrol messes things up. Here's what I did:

1. Purged all packages which depended on kdelibs
2. Removed ~/.kde
3. Reinstalled amarok

All toolbars appeared correctly. But the fonts were too big.

4. Reinstalled kcontrol
5. Changed the font's size to 9

The icons disappeared from the toolbar ! That's what happened yesterday,
since I installed all KDE application first, tinkered with them,
realized the fonts were too big, googled on it, and installed kcontrol
as someone had suggested.

My doubts now are:

1. Should I open a bug report with the KDE team ?
2. Is there another way of configuring the fonts for all KDE
   applications without resorting to kcontrol ?

Regards

Paulo