[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128523] New: remove old icon themes on Windows during installation to fix blacked-out ugly icons

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128523

            Bug ID: 128523
           Summary: remove old icon themes on Windows during installation
                    to fix blacked-out ugly icons
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.3.1.1 rc
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Installation
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: info at skierpage.com

I am running LibreOffice 6.3.1 after numerous updates from 5.x onwards and have
had terrible-looking blacked-out icons for months despite those updates (as I
recall each time I downloaded and ran the latest Windows installer). Today I
learned from bug 119020 that the fix is to delete the various icon folders in
%appdata%\LibreOffice\4\cache\<your icon theme name> folders (I opened each
folder, every icon theme folders had a folder named "150" inside which I
deleted).

This worked great and finally the icons look good, but very few LO users have
the knowledge to do this so many long-time users are experiencing ugly icons.

In bug 119020 comment #56 Robert Berg in wrote:
> Yes, deleting the cache folder is enough to fix it, and deleting the cache
> folder of a user not having the issue seems to have no negative effects
> except a few extra milliseconds next launch. However, most users who aren't
> tech inclined aren't going to know to delete the cache folder to fix their
> icons. Maybe the 6.2.0 installer/updater can have a one-time delete cache
> folder routine, so everyone starts fresh?

He is right, please add this fixup to the installer.

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