On Wednesday 06 February 2008 14:20:40 Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I upgraded a machine (not alas my own) by doing a clean install of Mandriva 2008, KDE. As you do. All went well. However, I needed to move over the kdepim files, calendar, email, address book. And also the kjots files.
So, I cleverly found them in the old /home directory, copied them, and then copied them into the appropriate places in the new /home directory.
All went well except for one thing. All the icons in the menu bars of kmail, kjots, and even tellico, have become generic and identical. Not quite what the user had in mind.
It is only this user. Other accounts work just fine.
Any ideas on how to get them back to normal? Would you for instance copy the .kde folder from another user and try to import mail? Or would you rename the problem user, create another, and then do a more sensible kind of import of the files? And where do kde apps get their little menu icons from anyway?
Sorry, ignore most of my last rather tired response as it didn't answer your question at all.
1. Do the kbuildsycoca thing, and 2. Do the icons work if you change icon sets?