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

[Rustam <rustam.ismail@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 07:40 -0300, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote:
> 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 ?

worth to try ;)

> 2. Is there another way of configuring the fonts for all KDE
>    applications without resorting to kcontrol ?
> 
i don't have any idea about this, sorry. i found a lot bug report while
googling regarding kcontrol. perhaps you can change to KDE 4, as
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=300658#14
mentioned that kcontrols doesn't exist in KDE 4.

> Regards
> 
> Paulo
> 
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