Hi all,

I have a strange icon problem that I'm hoping someone can help me with. I am running kde 4.9 on Kubuntu 12.04. What is happening is that most of my folder icons are missing in Dolphin when I activate a custom set. A few of them show up correctly, but most simply show a question mark where the icon should be. This only happens with folders, no other icons are affected. I've tried deleting the .kde folder with no luck. I was also able to create a new user identity on the same computer that does not have this problem. I'm assuming there's a screwed up config file somewhere causing this, but I have no idea where to look. Any and all help appreciated.

try deleting the kde cache /tmp/var/kdecache-username - this should be done while your session is not running

google01103 wrote:try deleting the kde cache /tmp/var/kdecache-username - this should be done while your session is not running

Thanks for the suggestion, but no joy (and apologies for not responding sooner, I was out of town and away from my computer yesterday). I tried logging out of kde and signing in through a terminal to delete the cache, but nothing seems to have changed. Any other ideas?

you could try running: kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental it rebuilds the system cache

also try as a diff/new user

maybe the problem is the custom set?

Does the icon set specify any fallback icon sets to use?
For example on my system, Oxygen specifies hicolor as the fallback theme to use:

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cat /usr/share/icons/oxygen/index.theme | grep Inherit
Inherits=hicolor

You should be able to find a index.theme file with similar contents inside the directory containing your icon theme. If you installed it via Get Hot New Stuff, then it is probably located at ~/.kde4/share/icons...