Re: Icons problems in Debian buster

Thanks for getting back to me.

I don't have any background in anything remotely like KDE programming.

Gotta love KDE. I also use kstart which I found by accident somewhere.
It's not documented anywhere either.

Joe

On 8/30/19 4:26 PM, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> I can relate to your comment - troubleshooting icon problems is not as smooth 
> an experience as it could be...
>
> Am Mittwoch, 28. August 2019, 15:14:04 CEST schrieb Joe:
>> A bit off topic, but one of my pet peeves with KDE has been being able
>> to select an icon in the configuration  GUI, but still not being able to
>> find it in the file system.
>>
>> (I wish  I could just right click on them and get their properties
>> including their location.)
> That would indeed be a nice feature. This could possibly be a relatively 
> straignt-forward beginner path for KIconDialog[1].
>
> [1] https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kiconthemes/html/classKIconDialog.html
>
>> I have lost a number of icons I wanted to copy and keep when they got
>> replaced in an upgrade, etc.
>>
>> This is the first I've heard of kiconfinder and I will use it. Thanks
>> for mentioning it.
>>
>> Are there any other tricks or utilities like this?
> Sorry, none that I know of.
>
>> Where is it documented (other than in kiconfinder --help-all)?
> There's no documentation as far a I can tell.
>
>> What if I don't know the exact name of the program/icon (which
>> kiconfinder seems to need)?
> I usually use the KIconDialog mentioned above by opening the properties dialog 
> of any random file in dolphin. The search there is actually quite decent ever 
> since you can search all categories at once. When I've found the icon I was 
> looking for, I note down the name ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>   Johannes
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> KPhotoAlbum mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://mail.kdab.com/mailman/listinfo/kphotoalbum