User password and icon management - KDE vs MCC.

[zugunder]

As of now, there exist 2 tools for management of user's passwords and some other details such as user login icon, etc. One of the tools is called kdepasswd (available via System Settings) and it is a part of KDE, the other tool is a part of MCC.
I can only change my user login icon via kdepasswd, and any icon changes via User Settings in MCC are ignored. There is an option to remove kdepasswd package in order to leave MCC to manage user passwords and login icons alone. But in that case I can't change the login user icon either - it is always the last one set in kdepasswd before its removal. Maybe it is kept somewhere in cache and called every boot regardless of the MCC settings...
Do you think it may be helped somehow? I mean, I'd like to keep MCC only and make it be able to change user login icon.
Login user icons managed from MCC are located in /usr/share/mga/faces/.
Login user icons managed by kdepassw are located in /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/users.
Thank you.

[doktor5000]

any icon changes via User Settings in MCC are ignored.

That should bre reported as a bug:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly

[zugunder]

Sure I'll do that... I only thought that it was a problem on my setup as in the other subforum someone was sharing additional user login faces (to be managed via MCC), so I supposed MCC worked at least in someone's hands. But it could have been Gnome...
Thank you.

[claire]

That could be related to this bug

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107

[zugunder]

That could be related to this bug
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107

Do you mean that this is somehow connected to what I reported? This is the screenshot from MCC, but to be honest, I do not see any connections...

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It looks to me that KDE settings override those introduced by MCC, but the icons inside MCC can't be affected by KDE, right? There may be some problems of the kind I have in the Application launcher menu as it is controlled by KDE completely, but in this case the option "Clean /tmp at each boot" did not help (or maybe I cleaned a wrong tmp).

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[doktor5000]

No, the essential problem with solving #107 is that there are problems with updating the KDE icon cache,
which could also be the same problem that you see with the user icon issue you described.
You could try to remove the cache manually and logout/login to see if it helps.

See maybe https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107#c34 for reference.

[zugunder]

No, it did not help.
I removed kdepassw, deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-<username>/icon-cache.kcache and all icons from /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/users. After reboot I still saw the same login image I set in kdepassw before, so obviously some other KDE icon cache was used.

[doktor5000]

Nope, then it's probably not about an icon cache, just that kdepasswd changes take effect and those from userdrake don't.
As is mentioned, that should be reported.