[KDE/Mac] critical regression or misconfiguration? Fallback to hicolor icons does not work

[Jonas Bähr]

Hi,

Am 02.01.2010 um 23:17 schrieb Pino Toscano:

> Hi,
>
>> On Mac OS X (1) KDE applications don't find their hicolor icons. The
>> reason for this is that there is no "index.theme" inside $PREFIX/ 
>> share/
>> icons/hicolor. As soon as such a file is added (for testing I've just
>> copied Oxygen's and changed the name) the fallback for missing oxygen
>> icons work.
>
> We ship kdebase/runtime/pics/hicolor/index.theme, which is properly  
> installed
> in $PREFIX/share/icons/hicolor.
>
> Otherwise, there's the hicolor-icon-theme[1] freedesktop.org  
> definition which
> provides more or less the same file. (This is also what GNU/Linxu  
> distros
> ship, correctly preferring it to our local copy.)
>
>> Is this a kde bug or do I miss an important dependency which  
>> installes
>> an icons/hicolor/index.theme?
>>
>> (1) Using KDE libs and base-runtime 4.3.4 installed via macports. The
>> application in question is Krusader from extragear/utils, also
>> installed via macports.
>
> It would appear some file not installed in such packages?

Thanks for the pointer. The Portfile for kdebase4-runtime [1] indeed  
removes this file from the distribution since it conflicts with  
hicolor-icon-theme. I've filed a bug report on MacPorts [2].

[1] http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/kde/kdebase4-runtime/Portfile#L42
[2] http://trac.macports.org/ticket/23105

bye,
Jonas

>
> [1] http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/wiki/HicolorTheme
>
> -- 
> Pino Toscano