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I am using Gentoo 1.4 and a very frustrating problem has developed on my system. I'm hoping I'm just not FTFM so I can RTFM - or doing something stupid and obvious, but I'm stumped

Many icons in KDE are just missing. Files on the desktop just have the text describing them. In Konqueror FM - the same thing happens in icon view mode - all text files are missing icons, previews aren't working... In all other modes icons are displayed.

I've searched for display/view options that could do this - but cannot find them.

The *wierdest* part is that when I first run KDE, or first open a folder in Konqueror the icons are displayed momentarily - but then they disappear almost instantly.

What the heck could this be?? Here is a picture of what I'm talking about.

http://home.comcast.net/~cbolin/snapshot1.jpg

wrong URL. Sorry:

http://home.comcast.net/~cbolin/snapshot1.gif

OK I'm not getting any help anywhere - burden on me to ask better.

Does anyone know where ALL the KDE configuration files are stored? I deleted .kderc and and the .kde directory in my home dir and it killed the wallpaper and color settings - but icons were all still there and the icons without text were also there.

I then unmerged all of KDE - 2 hours later - and reinstalled and the config settings were all still the same.

Are there KDE setting stored elsewhere? Is there a resource somewhere on the web that tells where they all are?

Is there a resource anywhere that tells exactly what else I have to do to COMPLETELY remove KDE from a Gentoo box?

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Original von Nicolas Goutte

You could perhaps try to use another theme of icons. Or another size.

If it still not works, I would check the icons one by one (of course especially the ones that do not work.)

The icons are where KDE is install in a relative path of share/icons (then the sub-directories are for themes, sizes and then types.)

My guess is either some icons were corrupted or are really missing in the theme that you use. (What I do not understand is then why the standard icon is not used.)

Thanks for the reply.

I have tried changing themes - many times.

The icons are all there - they actually are shown in KDE for one or two seconds when KDE first starts and then disappear.

I've tried to change the size, the icon theme, turn on and off thumbnails - really frustrating.

Any other ideas/