Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (271 mails)

[Carl <quantum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, 04 October 2002 21:16, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to change some icons from "?" to the desired icon on the desktop, I
> installed the software packetages afterwards  therefore the owner-ship is
> root. I ran first chmod to change it as user, then chown and finally I
> changed the icons as root, but in all cases the change only lasted for a
> few  days. I am using SuSE 8.0 and KDE 3.0.
>
> any ideas? thanks Martin

"Darwin", hm?  Cool.

Those changes you see are due to spastic responses K has to the act of 
configuration.

First of all, it sounds like you're running as root.  Bad idea.  You could 
visit a webpage with a 'bug' that could instantly root your system. (ever get 
one of those porn come-ons?)  So set up and use a user account for yourself 
as a matter of course.  As a user I always run Konq File Manager as root, and 
a KonsoleSU window, and I can do everything I would as root, yet surf and do 
everything else as a user.  Trouble is, K is sick right now, and you'll need 
some help doing that, so ask.

Second, K3.0.3 is the 'least ill' of all current 3 releases, so if you're not 
running that, go to SuseFTP Supplementary dir and get it.

All icons are under ~/.kde/share/icons and /opt/kde3/share/icons.  If you want 
them to be available system-wide, put icons in the latter.  Permissions 
should be root with all-read in global, and set to the user if in their home.  
Then when you set up a user it will stick.
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