[kde-linux] icon not showing in K menu

[James Tyrer]

On 05/28/2012 12:17 PM, Jethro Tull wrote:
> I'm using Slackware 13.37 with KDE 4; I wrote a script for this
> software to make a Slackware package in which I specified the
> sub-menu .menu file to be placed in
> /etc/kde/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ and the icon for this
> sub-menu in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/categories. There is one
> application in this sub-menu. I placed its icons in
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps,
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps and
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps. At the end of the installation
>  the script runs these programs to update menus and mime:
> /usr/bin/update-desktop-database -q usr/share/applications
> /usr/bin/update-mime-database usr/share/mime
> /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache usr/share/icons/hicolor
>
> Icons nevertheless do not show up in the K menu for the software
> sub-menu entry and also for the application in that sub-menu. But
> they both do in the K menu editor in the "General tab". Some other
> entries in the software sub-menu using the icon "utilities-terminal"
> have their icon showing up as normal. The problem is the same even
> after restarting the computer.
>
Sometimes the icon cache doesn't update.  The file (on my system) is:

     /var/tmp/<user_name>-kde4/kdecache-<user_name>/icon-cache.kcache

You can try deleting this file when you are not logged in to the KDE 
session.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch