Wierd Icon problem - Screenshots attached

[muzicman0]

OK, so I tried to change to a different Icon theme, which worked fine, but now I have a wierd Dolphin issue...when I hover over the forward of back buttons, I get a 'kde start' button icon...snapshot 1 is with the mouse over the 'forward button', snapshot 2 is without the mouse there...how can I get this back to normal? (and yes, I already went back to the default Icon theme...)

Thanks!!!!!
mm0

edit...I guess it won't let me do 2 attachments (too large), so just take it for granted that if I move the mouse off of the forward button, it returns to normal...

[muzicman0]

Re: Wierd Icon problem - Screenshots attached

bump

[flying_icarus]

Re: Wierd Icon problem - Screenshots attached

If this is in KDE4, you could try reinstalling the icon packages (maybe the original back icon got deleted). I'm not sure if this is all of them, but you can try the following in the konsole:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall kde-icons-oxygen kdeartwork-theme-icon-kde4 kde-icons-mono

[muzicman0]

Re: Wierd Icon problem - Screenshots attached

wow...now everything is screwed up...my kmenu button is no arrows, dolphin icons are screwed up...arghhhhh!!!!!

mm0

[lmilano]

Re: Wierd Icon problem - Screenshots attached

Try the KDE 4.04 update, it fixed some issues I had with (missing) icons ...

[kjjjjshab]

Re: Wierd Icon problem - Screenshots attached

I ran the 4.0.4 update (if you can call it that) and I just noticed that my back and forward buttons in kontact/kmail are different versions... weird stuff indeed.

[flying_icarus]

Re: Wierd Icon problem - Screenshots attached

wow...now everything is screwed up...my kmenu button is no arrows, dolphin icons are screwed up...arghhhhh!!!!!

Damn, that is definitely not the desired effect. :| How about this - try logging into kde3, and let's let kde4 restore default user settings - open a file manager and rename ~/.kde4 to something like .kde4-backup.. Now kde4 will give you default user settings, and that must fix everything to default, if the icons are broken only in your account, not systemwide.

If it's systemwide, I guess reinstalling everything would be too much hassle, so maybe upgrading to 4.0.4 would be easiest - it should (hopefully) overwrite everthing with working values...

Maybe try to reinstall more stuff, like

apt-get install --reinstall kdebase-bin-kde4 kdebase-data-kde4 kdebase-kde4 kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 kdelibs5 kdelibs5-data

If all that doesn't work... the last step would be to remove everything kde4 related and purge the configuration files, then reinstall again... something like this could do it

sudo apt-get purge kdelibs5

that will mark many packages for autoremoval, so maybe

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

should do the trick
you can always check for packages you may have missed with

dpkg -l |grep 4.0.3

(or 4.0.4 if you installed it)
and purge them as well
Then you install all from scratch

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop

This should have a high-success rate of fixing system-wide problems... if the broken icons return after this... then we can both start scratching our heads.