System won't remember setting "use Enlightenment-X icon theme"

[robbie-hatley]

I’m using Manjaro-KDE-Plasma, and I notice that after the last update (which updated Plasma from 5 to 6), the system won’t remember the setting “use Enlightenment-X icon theme”. I can set that setting, and it works for the duration of my session. But if I log out and back in, many icons revert to “sheet of white paper with folded upper-right corner” (or, more-recently, question marks):

To clear the question marks, I have to change icons to something else (say, Breeze, or Papirus), then immediately back to Enlightenment-X. And that works… for the duration of that session.

So, what’s up with the Englightment-X icon theme that would cause the system to keep forgetting the “use Enlightenment-X icon theme” setting? And is there any way to fix this?

(Note that none of the other icon themes have that problem. For example if I set icons to “Papirus”, the icons will still be “Papirus” after restart.)

[Aragorn]

Have you tried logging out of Plasma completely, logging in at a tty and emptying ~/.cache/?

[cscs]

@robbie-hatley

Enlightenment-X icon theme

Are you sure this icon theme is complete/compatible?
I cant find it in the repos, AUR, store.kde.org, etc.

If its a theme intended for the enlightenment desktop then I would guess it is not applicable.

@robbie-hatley

Note that none of the other icon themes have that problem

Well there you go then. Theme is bad. If it doesnt have updates then its time to move on.

[robbie-hatley]

@Aragorn

Have you tried logging out of Plasma completely, logging in at a tty and emptying ~/.cache/?

Hmmm. Lemme try that… Ok, back. Nope, didn’t help; system still can’t remember Enlightment-X and has to be reminded every session. For now I have it set to Papirus so I don’t have to reset it every time, but I’d like to get Enlightment-X to work if possible.

Some background info: The Enlightenment-X icon theme doesn’t com with Manjaro, but does pop up in the “Icon Themes” page in system settings if any programs of the “Enlightenment” series are installed. (In my case, after I installed the “ePhoto” program.) I suspect this is related to why the system can’t remember the setting.

[robbie-hatley]

@cscs

I cant find it in the repos, AUR, store.kde.org, etc.

The Enlightenment-X icon theme doesn’t com with Manjaro, but does pop up in the “Icon Themes” page in system settings if any programs of the “Enlightenment” series are installed:

In my case, I acquired it by I installing the “ePhoto” program. I suspect this is related to why the system can’t remember the setting: it would have to be tweaked somehow.

@cscs

Theme is bad. If it doesnt have updates then its time to move on.

The icon theme itself works; it’s just the setting that can’t be remembered. I could always force this issue by putting these two commands in my “/usr/share/scripts/autorun.sh” script, inserted as a “log-in script” in the “Autorun” settings page:

#!/usr/bin/bash
/usr/lib/plasma-changeicons 'Papirus'
/usr/lib/plasma-changeicons 'Enlightenment-X'

Lemme test that… Ok, it works. But it seems kinda silly that I needed to write a script to work around this puzzling bit of selective system amnesia.

[cscs]

That is some further clarification.

ephoto did not give you the icons. But its requirement efl did - which is Enlightenment libraries.

This is an icon set intended for the enlightnment OS/DE.

It does not have, for example, any plasma icons.

It may or may not ‘fall back’ somewhat gracefully - but it is not intended for this use case.

( or rather Plasma does. I highly doubt the enlightenment icon theme has any coded fallbacks for kde )

I would not suggest using it as a plasma icon theme.

[robbie-hatley]

@cscs

Are you sure this icon theme is complete/compatible?

I just discovered that it isn’t. I works OK for bottom-panel and app-menu, but inside of the Setting app, many items are now “?”.

@cscs

Theme is bad …time to move on.

Yep. I’m giving up on using Enlightenment-X as a systemwide icon theme, as apparently not compatible with Plasma 6, and I’m moving to Papirus instead.