SLES10RC3 and Icon-lookup with KDE doesn't work as expected

[Bastian, Waldo]

That's http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97776 It doesn't hurt to file
a bugreport against SLES10RC3 me thinks, maybe someone from suse fixes
it in KDE then.

Waldo Bastian
Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology
Channel Platform Solutions Group
Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman

>-----Original Message-----
>From: xdg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:xdg-
>bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Marcus Grassinger
>Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:02 AM
>To: xdg at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: SLES10RC3 and Icon-lookup with KDE doesn't work as expected
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>I'm evaluating whether KDE 3.5.1 (Level "a") respects the
>icon-lookup-spec.
>I concluded that it doesn't. Do you think that is due to
>SuSE-specific changes in the kde-configuration?
>
>The only time when icons get shown in KDE is when I place them in
>/opt/kde3/share/icons/hicolor/[...]/apps/.
>The variable XDG_DATA_DIRS is set by default to
>"/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/etc/opt/kde3/share/:/opt/kde3/share/:/o
pt/g
>nome/share/".
>
>Do I understand the icon-lookup-spec correctly, assuming that kde
>should at least look in "/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor" when I
>place an "Icon=red"-entry in my *.desktop-file for example?
>
>Has anybody a clue how I can get KDE on SLES10RC3 (still beta) to
>respect the spec and look in at least the fallback
>(/usr/share/icons/hicolor)?
>
>Should I complain to SuSE, or isn't it worth the time and hassle?
>
>Best regards,
>  Marcus
>
>P.S.: On Sles9 it's the same behaviour, by the way.
>P.P.S: My top.desktop-File looks like this:
>
>[Desktop Entry]
>Encoding=UTF-8
>Type=Application
>Categories=Graphics
>Cde=
>Exec=top
>Genericname=
>Genericname[de]=
>Gnome=
>Icon=red
>Kde=
>Location=/apps/
>Mimetype=
>Name=top
>Name[de]=top
>Terminal=1
>
>and is located at /usr/share/applications/sundc/top.desktop .
>
>
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