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    [WORKAROUND] Pulseaudio applet (padevchooser) missing incon

    after upgrading to Maverick 10.10 (from Lucid) Pulseaudio is the default sound manager for KDE. The padevchooser applet (visible in the system tray) is just a great tool but it has no icons!...Neither in the system tray nor in the pop-up menu (right clicking with the mouse).
    Searching on google and ubuntu forums I know there is a bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/431015

    But it doesn't work in Maverick (the workaround suggest to copy a file between some nonexistent paths). Does anybody have a different solution for this problem?
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    Re: Pulseaudio applet (padevchooser) missing incon

    I don't think it's ever had an icon -- if it did, I haven't seen it. Doesn't make it right ....
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      Re: Pulseaudio applet (padevchooser) missing incon

      It's supposed to pick up an icon called stock_line_in, but as you noticed, there doesn't seem to be any such icon. I did finally find it after a lot of searching, in the gperfection2 theme.

      My suggestion, to avoid a lot of messing around, is to find an icon you like, and put it in /usr/share/pixmaps. Then locate padevchooser.desktop, which is the file that stores the icon information. There may be more than one of those files, and you will need to edit them all. You will also need to use sudo to edit them, or kdesudo if you are using a gui editor. Put the pointer to the icon in the file, like this:

      [Desktop Entry]
      X-AppInstall-Package=padevchooser
      X-AppInstall-Popcon=3935
      X-AppInstall-Section=universe

      Version=1.0
      Encoding=UTF-8
      Name=PulseAudio Device Chooser
      GenericName=Device Chooser
      Comment=Change PulseAudio devices and their settings
      Exec=padevchooser
      Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/stock_line_in.png
      StartupNotify=true
      Type=Application
      Categories=Application;AudioVideo;Audio;
      X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=app-install-data


      You may need to restart kde for the change to take effect.
      We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. -- Stephen Hawking
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        Re: Pulseaudio applet (padevchooser) missing incon

        Originally posted by doctordruidphd
        It's supposed to pick up an icon called stock_line_in, but as you noticed, there doesn't seem to be any such icon. I did finally find it after a lot of searching, in the gperfection2 theme.

        My suggestion, to avoid a lot of messing around, is to find an icon you like, and put it in /usr/share/pixmaps. Then locate padevchooser.desktop, which is the file that stores the icon information. There may be more than one of those files, and you will need to edit them all. You will also need to use sudo to edit them, or kdesudo if you are using a gui editor. Put the pointer to the icon in the file, like this:

        [Desktop Entry]
        X-AppInstall-Package=padevchooser
        X-AppInstall-Popcon=3935
        X-AppInstall-Section=universe

        Version=1.0
        Encoding=UTF-8
        Name=PulseAudio Device Chooser
        GenericName=Device Chooser
        Comment=Change PulseAudio devices and their settings
        Exec=padevchooser
        Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/stock_line_in.png
        StartupNotify=true
        Type=Application
        Categories=Application;AudioVideo;Audio;
        X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=app-install-data


        You may need to restart kde for the change to take effect.
        thanks doctordruidphd!
        That worked...

        but I think I can't mark this thread as SOLVED unless this bug is fixed.
        thanks for your support!
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          Re: [Partially SOLVED] Pulseaudio applet (padevchooser) missing incon

          The icon padevchooser is looking for is found in one or more gnome themes, probably because the pulse packages are packaged by ubuntu and not modified by kubuntu. Yeah, it's a bug in the way the packages are made, maybe or maybe not worth developers' time to fix and maintain. So I'd mark it [workaround] and leave it at that. But technically you are right, and someone should fix it eventually.

          Edit: you beat me to it. 'Partially solved' is right.
          We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. -- Stephen Hawking
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            Re: [Partially SOLVED] Pulseaudio applet (padevchooser) missing incon

            Originally posted by doctordruidphd
            The icon padevchooser is looking for is found in one or more gnome themes, probably because the pulse packages are packaged by ubuntu and not modified by kubuntu. Yeah, it's a bug in the way the packages are made, maybe or maybe not worth developers' time to fix and maintain. So I'd mark it [workaround] and leave it at that. But technically you are right, and someone should fix it eventually.

            Edit: you beat me to it. 'Partially solved' is right.
            you beat me to it too. I changed to "Workaround..."
            Thanks again...
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