[opensuse] KDE 4.2 Desktop icons don't work
I upgraded to KDE 4.2 and now my icons on the desktop are blank and 2 icons on the quick launcher bar are blank. Well they're white w/ 101010 in them and when you click on them they don't load anything and the properties menu shoes nothing in them. Literally. If I set the icons the way I want them and log out and and log in it loads the default icons which are as I stated above. -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2/9/09, Michael S. Dunsavage
I upgraded to KDE 4.2 and now my icons on the desktop are blank and 2 icons on the quick launcher bar are blank. Well they're white w/ 101010 in them and when you click on them they don't load anything and the properties menu shoes nothing in them. Literally.
If I set the icons the way I want them and log out and and log in it loads the default icons which are as I stated above. -- Michael S. Dunsavage
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I have no idea if this helps, but: http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/406886-kde-4-2-icon-issues.html? Allen Registered Linux User 484485 (http://counter.li.org/) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 16:33 -0800, Allen Zhu wrote:
On 2/9/09, Michael S. Dunsavage
wrote: I upgraded to KDE 4.2 and now my icons on the desktop are blank and 2 icons on the quick launcher bar are blank. Well they're white w/ 101010 in them and when you click on them they don't load anything and the properties menu shoes nothing in them. Literally.
If I set the icons the way I want them and log out and and log in it loads the default icons which are as I stated above. -- Michael S. Dunsavage
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I have no idea if this helps, but:
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/406886-kde-4-2-icon-issues.html?
I have the same issue, and the two sets of oxygen icons are up-to-date. It is not just that the icon is odd. The properties seem odd. I suspect that the panel has info on this icon in a file, and the file has gone missing or is empty. Just a guess. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:41, Roger Oberholtzer
I have the same issue, and the two sets of oxygen icons are up-to-date. It is not just that the icon is odd. The properties seem odd. I suspect that the panel has info on this icon in a file, and the file has gone missing or is empty. Just a guess.
-- Roger Oberholtzer
Doing "kquitapp plasma && rm .kde4/share/config/plasma* && plasma &" ( as I saw on a blog I can't remember) solved the issue for me. Vincent -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Vincent Arnoux said the following on 02/10/2009 09:54 AM:
Doing "kquitapp plasma && rm .kde4/share/config/plasma* && plasma &" ( as I saw on a blog I can't remember) solved the issue for me.
Hmm. $ kquitapp plasma <unknown program name>(30762)/: "Application plasma could not be found using service org.kde.plasma and path /MainApplication." Same with root. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 01:59:59 schrieb Anton Aylward:
Vincent Arnoux said the following on 02/10/2009 09:54 AM:
Doing "kquitapp plasma && rm .kde4/share/config/plasma* && plasma &" ( as I saw on a blog I can't remember) solved the issue for me.
Hmm.
$ kquitapp plasma <unknown program name>(30762)/: "Application plasma could not be found using service org.kde.plasma and path /MainApplication."
If plasma is not running, you should not see any desktop background or panels, just a black background. If you find that you have a "plasma-desktop" instead, you are running KDE 4.3 pre-alpha, which is completely unsupported. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 01:59:59 schrieb Anton Aylward:
Vincent Arnoux said the following on 02/10/2009 09:54 AM:
Doing "kquitapp plasma && rm .kde4/share/config/plasma* && plasma &" ( as I saw on a blog I can't remember) solved the issue for me.
Hmm.
$ kquitapp plasma <unknown program name>(30762)/: "Application plasma could not be found using service org.kde.plasma and path /MainApplication."
If plasma is not running, you should not see any desktop background or panels, just a black background. If you find that you have a "plasma-desktop" instead, you are running KDE 4.3 pre-alpha, which is completely unsupported.
Sven
Hi There has got to be a problem somewhere with the upgrade to 4.2 , I tried the upgrade to 4.2 (i still need it) but wound up on the first update after thatwith the 4.3 beta stuff which naturally completely scuppered my machine just a white and grey checquer board background and very little working at all . Could it be that on one of the mirros or something there is a misconfiguration that is causing the bad update to 4.3 . I need some of the stuff in 4.2 on my one machine but after having had to re install because of the bad 4.3 thing is it now safe to attempt it again and if so what is the EXACT URL/Link that will only do update to 4.2 and completely ban 4.3 Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:14:02 peter nikolic wrote:
I need some of the stuff in 4.2 on my one machine but after having had to re install because of the bad 4.3 thing is it now safe to attempt it again and if so what is the EXACT URL/Link that will only do update to 4.2 and completely ban 4.3
Your signature says you have 10.3, so the URL is http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSU... http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt/openSUSE_10.3/ You need both. You can also get some extra applications from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Extra- Apps/openSUSE_10.3/ Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 12:30:49 schrieb Anders Johansson:
On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:14:02 peter nikolic wrote:
I need some of the stuff in 4.2 on my one machine but after having had to re install because of the bad 4.3 thing is it now safe to attempt it again and if so what is the EXACT URL/Link that will only do update to 4.2 and completely ban 4.3
Your signature says you have 10.3, so the URL is
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS USE_10.3/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt/openSUSE_10.3/
You need both.
Since KDE:Qt, even the one for 10.3, might be updated to Qt 4.5 RC1, which does not work well with KDE 4.2, this is not recommended and will cause trouble, which then is blamed on KDE4 again, rather than the user not sticking to its abilities/knowledge. So, if you don't know what you are doing, but still want to do it, use the one-click-installs which will add the correct repos, if you pick the correct one-click for your distro and KDE version. The correct repo, as you can see, if you have a look at the one-click files in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSU... is Qt44. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:43:26 Sven Burmeister wrote:
Since KDE:Qt, even the one for 10.3, might be updated to Qt 4.5 RC1, which
The one for 11.1 already has been updated
does not work well with KDE 4.2,
I updated mine yesterday, and it seems to be working well. The KDE guys constantly provide feedback to the Qt team, and bugs are normally fixed quickly.
this is not recommended and will cause trouble, which then is blamed on KDE4 again, rather than the user not sticking to its abilities/knowledge.
At this point, I don't see an issue. Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 12:45:04 schrieb Anders Johansson:
I updated mine yesterday, and it seems to be working well. The KDE guys constantly provide feedback to the Qt team, and bugs are normally fixed quickly.
If you ignore all the warnings on blogs and mailinglists, fair enough, but still, recommending this repo, if there is a less risky way is not the most sensible. The problem is not that there are bugs in Qt 4.5, the problem is that there are workarounds in KDE 4.2 for bugs in Qt 4.4, which will not work with Qt 4.5.
this is not recommended and will cause trouble, which then is blamed on KDE4 again, rather than the user not sticking to its abilities/knowledge.
At this point, I don't see an issue.
So you will send those users you recommended KDE:Qt a notification, if they have to change because there are issues? Why not just recommend the proper repo instead of leaving those users at risk to update to some Qt version which will not work? Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009 13:07:52 Sven Burmeister wrote:
The problem is not that there are bugs in Qt 4.5, the problem is that there are workarounds in KDE 4.2 for bugs in Qt 4.4, which will not work with Qt 4.5.
So you will send those users you recommended KDE:Qt a notification, if they have to change because there are issues? Why not just recommend the
I wonder if that's really an issue. So far I haven't seen a single problem since updating. proper
repo instead of leaving those users at risk to update to some Qt version which will not work?
People who experience bugs should report them so they can be fixed. It's the price you pay for living on the bleeding edge. BTW, I just noticed that the 1-click install doesn't add any of the qt repos now, which - considering that the qt packages haven't hit the online update yet - would cause even bigger problems, so until they are available in the update channel, I wouldn't recommend the 1-click path Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 02/15/2009 08:07 PM, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 12:45:04 schrieb Anders Johansson:
I updated mine yesterday, and it seems to be working well. The KDE guys constantly provide feedback to the Qt team, and bugs are normally fixed quickly.
If you ignore all the warnings on blogs and mailinglists, fair enough, but still, recommending this repo, if there is a less risky way is not the most sensible.
The problem is not that there are bugs in Qt 4.5, the problem is that there are workarounds in KDE 4.2 for bugs in Qt 4.4, which will not work with Qt 4.5.
Are you saying that KDE:/QT is the wrong QT repo? It is listed on http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Repositories#KDE_4.2_Factory_Development which i would have thought would be kept correct. I just updated today, and though I have seen some buglet in Dolphin, it has been working OK here. But looking, it looks like qt 4.5 rc1 packages are indeed in QT now. Are you saying that the Qt repo should be changed now to the Qt44 repo? I am on 11.1 BTW. If this is true, the link I pasted above should be updated by someone. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009 13:07:52 Sven Burmeister wrote:
So you will send those users you recommended KDE:Qt a notification, if they have to change because there are issues? Why not just recommend the proper repo instead of leaving those users at risk to update to some Qt version which will not work?
OK, I have found one problem with qt 4.5RC1. Not in KDE though. The YaST software management and repositories modules still crash with it Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 15 February 2009 13:07:52 Sven Burmeister wrote:
So you will send those users you recommended KDE:Qt a notification, if they have to change because there are issues? Why not just recommend the proper repo instead of leaving those users at risk to update to some Qt version which will not work?
OK, I have found one problem with qt 4.5RC1. Not in KDE though.
The YaST software management and repositories modules still crash with it
Anders
Not crashing here. (11.1 32-bit, KDE4.2, Qt4.5RC1.) BC -- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." Galileo Galilei -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 12:30:49 schrieb Anders Johansson:
On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:14:02 peter nikolic wrote:
I need some of the stuff in 4.2 on my one machine but after having had to re install because of the bad 4.3 thing is it now safe to attempt it again and if so what is the EXACT URL/Link that will only do update to 4.2 and completely ban 4.3
Your signature says you have 10.3, so the URL is
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/ope nS USE_10.3/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt/openSUSE_10.3/
You need both.
Since KDE:Qt, even the one for 10.3, might be updated to Qt 4.5 RC1, which does not work well with KDE 4.2, this is not recommended and will cause trouble, which then is blamed on KDE4 again, rather than the user not sticking to its abilities/knowledge.
So, if you don't know what you are doing, but still want to do it, use the one-click-installs which will add the correct repos, if you pick the correct one-click for your distro and KDE version. The correct repo, as you can see, if you have a look at the one-click files in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS USE_10.3/ is Qt44.
Sven
Hummm ok ingnoring the Sig below Opensuse 11.1 KDE4.1 all as per installed from the DVD i went to the oneclick url clicke on the correct choice for the machine in question 11.1 64 bit got 4.2 all seemed fine . Next day fired up the machine away it went checking for updates listed a whole load for KDE4.2 then bingo i wind up with 4.3 beta this is what i need to be absolutley certain that it will not happen again i need some of the bits that work in 4.2 but 4.3 beta is a no go zone been there not again thanks as i say ignore the Sig differnet machine . Cheers Pete . Once bitten twice shy -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009 14:07:35 peter nikolic wrote:
Next day fired up the machine away it went checking for updates listed a whole load for KDE4.2 then bingo i wind up with 4.3 beta
The reason this happened is that they moved 4.2 from UNSTABLE to Factory. When you first installed, you got pointed to UNSTABLE because that's where 4.2 was. You should subscribe to opensuse-kde@opensuse.org, which is where changes like that get announced Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009 14:07:35 peter nikolic wrote:
Hummm ok ingnoring the Sig below Opensuse 11.1 KDE4.1 all as per installed from the DVD i went to the oneclick url clicke on the correct choice for the machine in question 11.1 64 bit got 4.2 all seemed fine
By the way, be careful with the 1-click right now, because it won't give you any of the Qt repositories. The plan is to release the updated qt packages through online update, but that hasn't happened yet, so if you do the 1-click now, you get the updated KDE with an outdated qt, which *will* break. Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:14:02 peter nikolic wrote:
I need some of the stuff in 4.2 on my one machine but after having had to re install because of the bad 4.3 thing is it now safe to attempt it again and if so what is the EXACT URL/Link that will only do update to 4.2 and completely ban 4.3
Your signature says you have 10.3, so the URL is
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS USE_10.3/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt/openSUSE_10.3/
You need both.
You can also get some extra applications from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Extra- Apps/openSUSE_10.3/
Anders
Tes it's not for this machine this is staying 10.3 untill i am totally happy with 11.x it is the laptop that is on 11.1 and kde4.1 out of the box again . Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009 13:02:40 peter nikolic wrote:
Tes it's not for this machine this is staying 10.3 untill i am totally happy with 11.x it is the laptop that is on 11.1 and kde4.1 out of the box again .
So replace 10.3 with 11.1 in the URLs And if you want to go with what Sven recommends, replace Qt with Qt44 Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009, peter nikolic wrote:
On Sunday 15 February 2009, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 01:59:59 schrieb Anton Aylward:
Vincent Arnoux said the following on 02/10/2009 09:54 AM:
Doing "kquitapp plasma && rm .kde4/share/config/plasma* && plasma &" ( as I saw on a blog I can't remember) solved the issue for me.
Hmm.
$ kquitapp plasma <unknown program name>(30762)/: "Application plasma could not be found using service org.kde.plasma and path /MainApplication."
If plasma is not running, you should not see any desktop background or panels, just a black background. If you find that you have a "plasma-desktop" instead, you are running KDE 4.3 pre-alpha, which is completely unsupported.
Sven
Hi There has got to be a problem somewhere with the upgrade to 4.2 , I tried the upgrade to 4.2 (i still need it) but wound up on the first update after thatwith the 4.3 beta stuff which naturally completely scuppered my machine just a white and grey checquer board background and very little working at all .
Could it be that on one of the mirros or something there is a misconfiguration that is causing the bad update to 4.3 .
I need some of the stuff in 4.2 on my one machine but after having had to re install because of the bad 4.3 thing is it now safe to attempt it again and if so what is the EXACT URL/Link that will only do update to 4.2 and completely ban 4.3
Pete .
-- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.)
Perhaps i should add n ot for this machine which is 10.3 and staying the one in question is definatley 11.1 x86_64 two differnet machines the one in question does ot have the suse lists on it only the car club stuff http://www.qmc.org.uk/ hope this cleas things up .. :-) .. Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Vincent Arnoux wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:41, Roger Oberholtzer
wrote: I have the same issue, and the two sets of oxygen icons are up-to-date. It is not just that the icon is odd. The properties seem odd. I suspect that the panel has info on this icon in a file, and the file has gone missing or is empty. Just a guess.
-- Roger Oberholtzer
Doing "kquitapp plasma && rm .kde4/share/config/plasma* && plasma &" ( as I saw on a blog I can't remember) solved the issue for me.
And, I've 6 boxen now with the same problem. The above fix does nothing but destroy the desktop setup. I'm NOT going to update any more clients till this nasty bug is fixed. Fred -- The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Fred A. Miller
And, I've 6 boxen now with the same problem. The above fix does nothing but destroy the desktop setup. I'm NOT going to update any more clients till this nasty bug is fixed.
Fred
Hi, I have the same problem after update. I have folder view widget open 3 times and yaWP widget open 2 times after update. Also the widget on panel for dolphin and konqueror seems missing the icons. Now it solve by editing ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc file. I found that there are some entries with broken icon entry/link and also the double or triple call to the widget. I forget the detail, but it will not hurt to delete the entry that you think not right. Anyway, if you login to the desktop and set-up your desktop again it will automatically write the configuration in that file. regards, medwinz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
participants (12)
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Allen Zhu
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Anders Johansson
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Anton Aylward
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Basil Chupin
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Fred A. Miller
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Joe Morris
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medwinz
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Michael S. Dunsavage
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peter nikolic
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Roger Oberholtzer
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Sven Burmeister
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Vincent Arnoux