Bug 218352

Summary:	kde menu editor loses icons
Product:	[Applications] kmenuedit	Reporter:	gamingmaniac
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	lainiwakura
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description gamingmaniac 2009-12-12 04:02:06 UTC

Version:           0.8 (using 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1) "release 6", openSUSE 11.2)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop

After adding a newly-installed application to the menu using kmenuedit and saving, all of the icons except for those listed as system icons disappeared.  There are no longer any icons in the "other icons" field, and the dropdown no longer has any entries at all.  The icons themselves are right where they should be (they weren't deleted), but kmenuedit doesn't seem to be able to find them anymore.

This is an extremely frustrating bug.  Like many other users I rearrange the menu according to my own system and use the icons I prefer.  With all the icons missing except for "system", I have to manually browse to the appropriate directories for each and every app.  Haven't been able to find a fix yet on Google that works.

Comment 1 Lain Iwakura 2010-02-03 17:45:40 UTC

I too have that bug. My setup is KDE 4.3.2 (Kubuntu 9.10) 64Bit, on Core i7.
`uname -a' -> "Linux *** 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux".

This problem also occurs if I try to switch an icon of a folder, using dolphin. There it behaves a bit different: I open a new Dolphin (the only one running, as far as `ps -e | grep -i dolphin' tells me). It starts up in my home folder, I do the "right click on folder -> Properties -> click on icon" (will refer to this procedure with `RCFPCOI') thing with my "Documents" folder, the usual 'Select Icon - ...' dialog pops up. Same problem as in kmenuedit. But if I exit the dialog and the underlying 'properties' one (doesn't matter if its with cancel or ok), and do the RCFPCOI again, it works, categories are shown! After that I may do RCFPCOI on every folder I please and it always works in that Dolphin instance. Also if I start two Dolphins, do the RCFPCOI 2 times in one instance and then it works in the other instance, too. It doesn't matter if I do the 2-times-magic in the first or the second instance.

I started a discussion in http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=85224

Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2012-07-30 14:19:18 UTC

Old bug report and can't reproduce using KDE SC 4.9. Feel free to reopen the report if the problem still exits in recent version.