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Asked: 2015-11-09 01:34:25 +0800 CST

Kate is missing all button icons

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After removing KDE and switching to xfce, I discovered that Kate has lost all button icons, while Kile has not. I guess some configuration file refers to missing files, but what file is it. I tried to create a new, clean, user account, but the problem remains. In particular the search buttons has disappeared, since they have no text on them. Save file dialog without any icons in toolbar

Update

A fresh install of Xubuntu on a second drive gives the same error:

Bad kate

It is the same machine, booted from an external USB hard drive

The "Open" dialog box is not affected. Only toolbars and the "Save as" dialog are broken. I suspect a packaging bug.

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5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Seems to be a bug. Check here (answers #10 and #16): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dolphin/+bug/1509562

    In short: installing package 'libqt5libqgtk2' before 16.04 and 'qt5-style-plugins' for 16.04 and later brings back MOST of the icons in KDE-Applications. For the few remaining ones, you have to fiddle around with the icon-settings in KDE-System-Settings.

    HTH

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  2. Placing .rcc file into ~/.local/share/kate seems to bring the icons back (this also applies for krusader).

    I did what is described in following webpages. However, kate is not using correct icon theme now.

    https://dev.webonomic.nl/using-krusader-with-ubuntu-18-04

    http://divideoverflow.com/2017/05/Configuring_Krusader_to_use_different_icons_template/

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  3. You should install oxygen icon pack:

    sudo apt-get install oxygen-icon-theme*

    and if the left side panel (file list..) is missing:

    sudo apt-get install kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins
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  4. I would do the following:

    sudo apt-get purge kate
sudo apt-get install kate

    If kate holds configuration files in the home folder, then please delete those before re-installing. Let us know if this worked.

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  5. Beside my comment, i found following:
    (KDE apps running on XFCE have no icons in menus.)
    https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117414

    Maybe you can try:

    gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons true
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true
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