kdelibs has a feature since 4.7.4 that will not update file icons according their content which are on "slow" filesystems like nfs or samba shares, thus only showing a default icon. This bug should affects every Admin using home on nfs or samba shares, thats why i made this patches until it gets fixed upstream. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount nfs or samba share on some mount point 2. browse mount point with dolphin or desktop folder view 3. Actual Results: shows file icons all as default icons Expected Results: show file icons described by their content more information: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=98122&sid=f59390e4fcb8bfefb7c32ccbc836cbdf introduced since: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178678
Created attachment 297905 [details, diff] removes all occurrences of isSlow() method
Created attachment 297907 [details] epatch kdelibs-4.7.4-no_isSlow.patch
Please send your patch to upstream via https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/ and let them decide.
they already know about this. this patch is only for us who would like to use an almost stable kde (kde-4.7.4 that is) on nfs until it gets fixed upstream.
Created attachment 300593 [details, diff] make isSlow() always return false this is a fairly small patch, hopefully enough for >kdelibs-4.8.0
Created attachment 300597 [details, diff] use show-correct-icons && epatch kdelibs-4.8.0_isSlow_return_false.patch this is a diff against kdelibs-4.8.0-r1.epatch but works with kdelibs-4.7.4-r11.ebuild as well.
While I understand what you want, it makes no sense to patch this. After all, isSlow is introduced to fix a problem... we'll follow upstream with this. You should make your case for a better solution in the KDE bug.
