Bug 84938

Summary:	installing cursor theme strips symlinks
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Braden MacDonald <mail>
Component:	kcmmouse	Assignee:	Marie Loise Nolden <nolden>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	anderslund, de.meyer.maarten, j.luetkens, sven.burmeister
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Braden MacDonald 2004-07-11 18:59:24 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

When I used the kcmmouse "Install New Theme..." button to install the Ghost Cursors theme from KDE-look.org, I discovered that the installation didn't properly create the symlinks that were in the .tar.bz2 file I downloaded. For example, there is a symlink "hand" in the cursors directory that links to "hand1". It was just created as an empty file, not a symlink.
  This caused most cursors to not even appear properly; instead I get the hideous X default black and white cursors.

Reference:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13090

Comment 1 Jens Luetkens 2005-12-22 16:49:03 UTC

Same here, KDE 3.5 SuSE 10.0 packages. Sad enough that some cursors get linked by these hashes in KDE.

Comment 2 André Goddard Rosa 2005-12-22 23:47:19 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 3 S. Burmeister 2006-11-01 16:38:16 UTC

This bug is 2 years old. So either it is too hard to fix, not a bug but a feature and hence invalid, or a defacto WONTFIX.

Comment 4 William Hilton 2007-12-01 03:00:15 UTC

I just tested installing cursor themes in KDE4 (using kde4daily) and this bug appears to be fixed. However, I don't know whether the fix has been backported.

Comment 5 Jens Luetkens 2010-05-12 17:54:34 UTC

Agreed, obviously resolved by dfaure in karchive.cpp Sep 21 2007. #116431 is a duplicate of bug #84938 and possibly some others.

Comment 6 Maarten De Meyer 2012-11-29 21:57:24 UTC

*** Bug 116431 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Maarten De Meyer 2012-11-29 22:03:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Agreed, obviously resolved by dfaure in karchive.cpp Sep 21 2007. #116431 is
> a duplicate of bug #84938 and possibly some others.
Thank you
Closing