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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: what/when will icon cache refresh?
From:       Rex Dieter <rdieter () math ! unl ! edu>
Date:       2011-03-18 18:22:22
Message-ID: im07sv$it6$1 () dough ! gmane ! org
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johnm_s2 wrote:

> x86_64 KDE 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6"
> 
> I've created an icon and installed it to
> share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/. I refer to it in my app's .desktop
> file, and I also load it at runtime using:
> 
> KIcon myicon("myicon");
> 
> But I'm not understanding the behavior of the icon caching. I make
> changes to the icon, but the changes will not show up. It still shows
> the original icon image. I even delete the icon file completely, yet it
> still shows!
> 
> kbuildsycoca4 doesn't help, logout & login doesn't help. The only thing
> i've found that works is to delete the icon-cache.kcache, and the kpc
> folder.

Per the icon spec, when installing icons, you need to 'touch' the top-level 
icon theme dir (so caches know to invalidate).

-- Rex

 
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