Comment # 2 on bug 1204618 from Atri Bhattacharya

journalctl shows messages like these:

> Oct 24 14:58:34 gnome-shell[7251]: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.
>                                    This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.

However, the appropriate pixbuf loaders seem to be installed:

~���zypper se -si pixbuf
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S  | Name                         | Type    | Version     | Arch   | Repository
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i+ | gdk-pixbuf-lang              | package | 2.42.9-3.1  | noarch | Main
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i  | gdk-pixbuf-loader-libheif    | package | 1.12.0-10.6 | x86_64 |
packman-essentials
i  | gdk-pixbuf-loader-libopenraw | package | 0.3.1-2.5   | x86_64 | Main
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i  | gdk-pixbuf-loader-rsvg       | package | 2.55.1-1.1  | x86_64 | Main
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i+ | gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders     | package | 2.42.9-3.1  | x86_64 | Main
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i+ | gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer       | package | 2.42.9-3.1  | x86_64 | Main
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i+ | libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0          | package | 2.42.9-3.1  | x86_64 | Main
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i  | libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2_0-0     | package | 2.40.2-1.8  | x86_64 | Main
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i+ | typelib-1_0-GdkPixbuf-2_0    | package | 2.42.9-3.1  | x86_64 | Main
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i+ | webp-pixbuf-loader           | package | 0.0.6-1.1   | x86_64 | Main
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and running gtk-update-icon-cache on the /usr/share/icons/* dir does not help
either. Also ran `update-mime-database` on mime dir to no effect.