Bug 27943 – Kopete cannot find its icons or plugins

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Alastair Burt 2003-09-04 11:00:49 UTC]

Kopete emerges without problem, but when invoked there are no icons or plugins
in the configuration dialog. With no plugins, kopete is unusable.

I notice that the plugins get installed under /usr/lib/kde3 and the icons under
/usr/share/apps/kopete/icons. Neither of these is under /usr/kde/3.1 and there
are no other libraries in /usr/lib/kde3 apart for those for kopete.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge kopete
2. start kopete
3. call up configuration dialog.




kde-base/kdepim-3.1.2
net-im/kopete-0.7.1

Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
distcc 2.8 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache distcc"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg gnome libg++ libwww
mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv
zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk java X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl
perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl ldap amd apache2 auctex
autofs curl dnd emacs flash foreign-package imagemagick imap md5sum mozsvg mule
pda postgres tetex type1 wxwindows xface xvid zeo"

[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-09-08 07:53:02 UTC]

This is the correct place for these files to be installed to, as it allows us to keep portability 
through different kde versions. 
 
Have you changed your kde setup somehow?  I just emerged kopete and it found the plugins 
automagically. 
 
Try running kbuildsycoca and see if it needs to regenerate the system cache. 

[Comment 2 Tim 2003-09-11 16:58:20 UTC]

In case you haven't read it yet, there is an item about this issue in the kopete FAQ on http://kopete.kde.org
Maybe it helps.

[Comment 3 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-09-15 19:55:09 UTC]

perhaps running a 'kbuildsycoca' will help? 

[Comment 4 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-10-23 10:24:23 UTC]

Yup, rebuild the system cache will fix it.