Bug 356972 - Cannot write a custom icon for a (perhaps new) mimetype
Summary: Cannot write a custom icon for a (perhaps new) mimetype
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 356237
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Faure
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Reported: 2015-12-20 22:59 UTC by luisfe
Modified: 2016-07-23 19:06 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description luisfe 2015-12-20 22:59:28 UTC 
If the folder 
.local/share/mime or .local/share/mime/packages
does not exists, the user cannot choose icon

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with a new user and empty directory
2. Try to choose a custom icon for a mimetype, application-x-dvi through the select icon dialog.


Actual Results:  
The is no visible change. Restarting/deleting the icon cache has no effect.
One gets the error:

"""
m_userSpecifiedIcon has changed. Now set to "aapplication-x-dvi"
m_userSpecifiedIcon has changed. Now set to "aapplication-x-dvi"
writing "/home/luisfe/.local/share/mime/packages/application-x-dvi.xml"
Couldn't open "/home/luisfe/.local/share/mime/packages/application-x-dvi.xml" for writing
"""

Expected Results:  
The chosen icon is shown

The obvious workaround is to create the folders 

.local/share/mime
.local/share/mime/packages

After doing this the icon can be set. So the code needs to create these directories if they do not exist.
Comment 1 Wolfgang Bauer 2016-07-23 19:06:32 UTC 
This was a bug in kde-cli-tools (keditfiletype) which has been fixed in 5.6.5.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 356237 ***