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?
Al
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?
Al
What I usually do is start with a fresh kde installation, and copy in the configuration stuff from the old install for kab, kmail, korganiser,kwallet etc. - all of which is located in the appropriate files/folders in $kdeuser/share/apps and $kdeuser/share/config (and remember to move your mail folder to if you want to).
The quick answer is to move/delete the new .kde directory, let everything get rebuilt when you next log in, and drop in those files, and that's probably the best way to go.
If for some reason you absolutely feel the need to, you could delete that user's kde stuff from /tmp and run kbuildsycoca, but to be honest I'd just nuke the lot and drop in only the files you need.
Ten
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?
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Ten