[SOLVED] File icons can't be changed in Mageia 3 KDE4

[M_R]

Hi everybody. I'm new here.

I have a clean install of Mageia 3 and am finding a problem with icons in KDE: you can't change the icon of a filetype by clicking on the wrench icon, clicking on the icon that appears in the new dialog, and then apply, ok. The icon appears as changed in the file associations sections, you can clearly see it is different, but dDolphin keeps displaying the same default icon...


This also happens in another machine I have with OpenSuSe 11.4 and used to happen with my former Mageia 2 (I moved to 3 because I accidentally destroyed it during a kernel update...).


Any ideas?

[doktor5000]

You don't get an error message like "configuration file /home/username/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list cannot be saved ..." when trying to save the new icon?

[M_R]

I just did when I tried to change the program that opens this file. I changed permissions and now that mini problem is fixed, the icons is still the problem. I haven't logged out, though...

[doktor5000]

Hmmm, this is weird - i've got the error message, but after logout the icon has changed.

[M_R]

I got the error when trying to change the program that runs it, but not when trying to change the icon only.

You were right though, changing permissions and loging out solved the problem

Thank you for your help. I'll be posting a lot here.

PS: is that how you mark topics solved here (I simply wrote solved next to the question, need to do soemthing else)?

[doktor5000]

PS: is that how you mark topics solved here (I simply wrote solved next to the question, need to do soemthing else)?

You did it exactly right.