[Digikam-users] digiKam 5.0.0 from philip5 PPA missing icons

[Dmitri Popov]

Hi Philip,

I followed your instructions, and now everything works as it's
supposed to. Thank you for your help!

Best,
Dmitri

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Philip Johnsson
<philip.johnsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nate,
>
> I have only Breeze and Breeze Dark to choose from as Digikam 5 icon themes.
> I haven't tested if other icon themes can be used. Breeze Dark work as it
> should with its icons as far as I can see but if you don't also change to a
> dark Digikam 5 theme in Settings > Themes many Breeze Dark icons shows as
> white on white and not that visible without also a dark Digikam 5 theme.
>
> I also did some testing on Lubuntu 16.04 and the only missing package that
> is needed on some system that doesn't use it is the breeze-icon-theme
> package. I just made an update to my PPA for the digikam5 packages and made
> breeze-icon-theme a dependent package so it always gets installed.
>
> Still if you start digikam 5 on a non-KDE/Plasma desktop environment that
> don't have KDE/Plasma icon theme configuration files somehow before you need
> to manually go into Digikam 5 > Settings > Configure Digikam > Miscellaneous
>> Icon Theme and select a icon theme and then restart Digikam 5 to have
> icons shown.
>
> /Philip
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Nate Bartnick <natebartnick at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Philip,
>>
>> I could find no way to manually resize the setting and configuration
>> pop-up windows in Lubuntu 16.04. Just curious,  in your test were you able
>> to choose a dark theme like Obsidian Coast using Settings > Themes ? I had
>> to manually configure the settings using Lubuntu 16.04. It took awhile for
>> me to figure all this out. When Digikam5 was first released I reformatted my
>> laptop with Lubuntu 16.04 just to install Digikam5. Is there any way to
>> force a dark theme and Icons during the install?
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Philip Johnsson
>> <philip.johnsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dimitri
>>>
>>> Then something more is missing and hopefully something that doesn't mean
>>> that you need to install most of kde/plasma (like Nate did even though it's
>>> a solution) just to get the breeze theme and icons. I'll install xubuntu on
>>> a virtual machine and do some testing.
>>>
>>> Nate
>>>
>>> Those smaller setting and configuration pop-up windows in digikam 5 as I
>>> can see it and not package dependent (is a bug). Right now you have to
>>> manually resize the windows to have decent working GUI for those windows.
>>>
>>> /Philip
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Nate Bartnick <natebartnick at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Philip,
>>>>
>>>> It allowed me to select a dark theme and the breeze-icon-theme and
>>>> Obsidian Coast dark theme by only installing plasma-desktop
>>>> plasma-desktop-data in Lubuntu 16.04. The only issue I have is that the
>>>> settings menu is a smaller interface have to scroll a lot to get to what I
>>>> need to change.
>>>>
>>>> Nate
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Philip Johnsson
>>>> <philip.johnsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Nate,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your feedback. Installing those two packages sure would
>>>>> solve it as it brings in alot of kde/plasma things including breeze but I
>>>>> wonder if it all is really needed. The missing icons for digikam 5 is in
>>>>> breeze-icon-theme but I'm not sure if thats enough for you to select them as
>>>>> a theme in digikam.
>>>>>
>>>>> Setting or changing icon theme in digikam 5 is done in the menu:
>>>>> Settings > Configure > Miscellaneous > Icon theme
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure if just the breeze-icon-theme package is enough for you to
>>>>> have digikam 5 show the theme as selectable if you don't use a kde/plasma
>>>>> desktop environment.
>>>>>
>>>>> /Philip
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Nate Bartnick <natebartnick at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I use Lubuntu 16.04. I installed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> plasma-desktop
>>>>>> plasma-desktop-data
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and this fixed my missing icons and dark theme. I then had to go to
>>>>>> Digikam settings and choose the icon setup and theme.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Dmitri Popov <lazylegs at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A quick question for Philip: I've installed digiKam 5.0.0 from the
>>>>>>> philp5 PPA on Xubuntu 16.04, but the application is missing all icons
>>>>>>> for buttons, menu items, etc. Is it a bug, or did I do something
>>>>>>> wrong?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>> Dmitri
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