Hi,

I recently updated KDE from 4.10 to 4.11, and now the per-application icons (the ones in /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons) are resolved as the "mimetype/unknown" icon, which is a) ugly and b) seems to slow the GUI down proportional to the number of missing icons. What I tried so far without success [openSuSE 12.3 x64]:

• Re-install oxygen-icons.
• Select other icon themes.
• Drop my KDEDIRS override.
• Remove /tmp/kde* and /var/tmp/kde*.
• Run kbuildsycoca --noincremental.

The very last thing I want to do is to remove ~/.kde4. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

What is the output of the following command?

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kde4-config --path icon

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/home/sto/.kde4/share/icons/:/usr/local/share/icons/:/usr/share/icons/

Hm, that looks normal. Can you try to reproduce under a new user please?

If this started with 4.11.1 it could be this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324574

Indeed, that looks quite familiar, although that doesn't explain why applications with many missing icons have such a lagging GUI. That looks as if an "icon not found" error isn't cached. Now I have to wait for the next bugfix release

MrSyron wrote:Now I have to wait for the next bugfix release

As per the bug report, a patch that fixes this already exists.

So I guess a fixed openSUSE package should be available really soon...

wolfi323 wrote:

MrSyron wrote:Now I have to wait for the next bugfix release

As per the bug report, a patch that fixes this already exists.

So I guess a fixed openSUSE package should be available really soon...

Nearly forgot to mention that here as well:
The packages in the openSUSE repos already contain the fix.
So just update your system ("sudo zypper up" f.e.) and you should be fine again...

At least the icons should work.
I'm not sure if that was the cause for your lagging GUI problem though, because I haven't experienced that here.
If that still occurs you should maybe play around with the desktop effects settings. And better open a new thread for that!

It's all fixed now, thanks. The GUI isn't lagging anymore, and I hadn't any desktop effects enabled.

MrSyron wrote:It's all fixed now, thanks. The GUI isn't lagging anymore, and I hadn't any desktop effects enabled.

Great, then!