Latest yum update of KDE loses some icons

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 03 November 2006 13:11, Rex Dieter wrote:
>Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On 11/3/06, A Yagi <ayagi at scripps.edu> wrote:
>>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> > I just did a yum update, and KDE came down the pipe. The update
>>> > however seemed to have hosed server icons on my system: including,
>>> > but not limited to some icons in my KMenu.
>>>
>>> I found this solution somewhere and it worked for me:
>>>
>>> cd ~/.config
>>> mv menus menus.orig
>>> kbuildsycoca
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Akemi
>>
>> Thanks. Since Rex already responded, I'll wait for his follow up
>> before I try your suggestion.
>
>Akemi's suggestion is a good one, run kbuidsycoca from a konsole window
> (: You may or may not need to move ~/.config/menus out of the way.
>
This did not work for me since I'd built mine with konstruct.  However, 
running kbuildsycoa, while it spit out quite a few warnings, resulted in a 
nearly 2x increase in the number of items in the K-menu, making some 
things visible that had never been visible before.

Overall, a big thank you!

>-- Rex

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