Ah brilliant - yeah I saw ten others about on facebook and G+ who had the same problem so it seems to be rather common. When will the patch "come out"? Is there something we should do or is it just a situation of "Hang tight and update often"?

jensreuterberg wrote:Ah brilliant - yeah I saw ten others about on facebook and G+ who had the same problem so it seems to be rather common. When will the patch "come out"? Is there something we should do or is it just a situation of "Hang tight and update often"?

Well, seeing that there already is a patch, this should be fixed in 4.11.2, which will be released on October 1st.

But distributions may add the patch to their packages earlier. So if you don't want to wait that long, you either have to patch and compile kde-workspace for yourself, or ask your distribution to add the fix.

Ouch thats rough news... Ok so what other alternatives are there? Reinstall krita but removing the Kubuntu-backports PPA? Or downgrade to 4.11.0 somehow? Or reinstall everything?

jensreuterberg wrote:Ouch thats rough news... Ok so what other alternatives are there? Reinstall krita but removing the Kubuntu-backports PPA? Or downgrade to 4.11.0 somehow? Or reinstall everything?

Sorry, I'm not really informed about Kubuntu's repositories.
But a simple reinstall wouldn't help. You would have to downgrade the whole KDE to 4.11.0 or earlier.

I would suggest to report the bug on Kubuntu's bugtracker (launchpad I suppose?) with a pointer to the KDE bug report, so that Kubuntu's developers are aware of it (well, maybe they are already anyway...).
Then I guess you would get fixed packages in at most a few days.

Oh I don't have Kubuntu either but Mint KDE so I use the backports PPA as well. But many are on Kubuntu since the Cintiq settings are better on Kubuntu for some reason (Don't have a cintiq so I have no idea how).

So the question is how to downgrade to 4.11.0 or earlier then that on ubuntu/mint... ouch this will be tricky it seems Will have to figure out how to do that in some easy way or learn how to work "blind"

jensreuterberg wrote:So the question is how to downgrade to 4.11.0 or earlier then that on ubuntu/mint... ouch this will be tricky it seems Will have to figure out how to do that in some easy way or learn how to work "blind"

You still can hover the mouse pointer over the missing icons and should get a description then.

And as I already said, fixed packages should presumably be available soon anyway. (At least for openSUSE I am sure about that )

Yeah and its not like we can complain since we added the backport ppa ourselves and it is more sensitive to change. But "a few day" ripped out of a work week is not viable for the majority of us working in Krita hence the eventual need to downgrade.

Oh I wish I could get into Opensuse but its just too much stuff included when what I need is something extremely simplistic but with great hardware and network recognition (IE no minimanagement fiddling post-install) and the Opensuse installation process is just... its a bit too much and I tend to recommend people who are my skill level or below to skip it and go for something a tad bit more streamlined. I mean I guess its brilliant for some I suppose but I prefer an installation process to be "Over or next to whats already on there?" - click - done.

I'd try removing the base kdelibs package, then remove the ppa, then reinstall krita (and all of the kde desktop if you use that). I agree, it sucks...

Ouch x2! Ok well I am on KDE plasma and reinstalling everything sounds risky to say the least and I can't reinstall the computer at this point and I can't wait... heh seems I'm up the venerable **** creek here

I'll have to figure out some alternative while waiting for the Mint KDE devs to push out the fix it seems

Or, a DIY method

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git clone -b KDE/4.11 git://anongit.kde.org/kde-workspace.git
cd kde-workspace
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` -DLIB_SUFFIX=`kde4-config --libsuffix` -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=relwithdebinfo -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=OFF ..
cd qguiplatformplugin_kde
make
sudo make install

You're scaring me dude

OK what does your DIY thing do? If I implement it will it bork me beyond belief?

That would be a step-by-step method for compiling kde-workspace by yourself (OK, not whole kde-workspace, but only part which is responsible for the icon issue)

jensreuterberg wrote:I'll have to figure out some alternative while waiting for the Mint KDE devs to push out the fix it seems

Just FYI:
In the meantime the patch has been commited, so it will definitely be fixed in 4.11.2.
And openSUSE's packages already contain the fix! Thanks sumski!
I have no idea about Mint though...

I just tested the new openSUSE packages here and the icons are indeed ok again.

Yeah like stated above: sadly thats not the case in either Kubuntu or Mint KDE (which is sorta favoured if the G+ circles are anything to go by) and to be honest I am a bit wary of compiling it myself since I'd prefer to backup everything first in fear of messing something up along the way and if I back up stuff I might aswell just reinstall Mint KDE and not add the backports until the patch is released.

Well, as I already said, you could report this on the bugtracker for Kubuntu's backport ppa: (against kde-workspace)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa

Point them to the bug report and ask for the fix to be included in the kde-workspace package.

You have to register there first of course.