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Description of problem: Since FC9 broke my FC7 gdm settings, I found at http://dunedin.lug.net.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=319843 "configure Kdm in KDE System Settings > Advanced". I configured the login users with their icons, but kdm still shows the default icon until I symlink them (eg. ln -s /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces/greg.face.icon /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/greg.face.icon) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-workspace-4.0.5-3.fc9.i386 (I don't know which component is affected. Sorry.) How reproducible: ever
We know what's causing this, this is best fixed in kdelibs, I'll take care of it.
(Rex Dieter, I think this has the same root cause as the problem with the KDM configuration itself you noticed this week.)
Yes. (Still) want to try modifying the kstandarddirs patch as we discussed?
Yes. Done in kdelibs-4.0.99-3.fc10 in Rawhide. Need some testing before putting this into F9. (We'll probably want to wait for the KDE 4.1 update to put this into F9. Or do you think this is urgent enough to rush out an update with this backported to our last 4.0.5 build?)
(In reply to comment #4) One thing is for sure: it's not urgent for me. :) As Gnome's user switching does not work with kdm, I'm stuck with the new ugly gdm. Thanks, guys.
*** Bug 455623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still seeing a problem here: Unable to create folder /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes Unable to create folder /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces So Themes cannot be installed as per comments in bug #455623 rpm -qa|grep kdelibs kdelibs-devel-4.1.0-2.fc9.i386 kdelibs-4.1.0-2.fc9.i386 kdelibs3-devel-3.5.9-16.fc9.i386 kdelibs-common-4.1.0-2.fc9.i386 kdelibs3-3.5.9-16.fc9.i386
Looks like bug 455623 is separate. Actually the original report in this thread is a non-bug, it is intentional that KDM now uses /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm for configuration! It would be a bug if it was looking in /usr/share/apps/kdm only, some things did, they should be fixed not to since kdelibs-4.0.99-3.fc10.
Ok thanks for the info, I see you have re-opened #455623.
Looking carefully at the issue, it turns out my change to the kstandarddirs patch (see comment #4) had no effect at all. Moreover, I misunderstood the original report here, so we will track this issue in bug 455623 which actually fits the problem. Closing this bug because the original report here is not a bug.
To be very clear: * It is NOT a bug that KDM searches in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces. * It IS a bug that the KDM configuration uses /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces, this is the same bug as bug 455623 (which is why I originally closed that as a duplicate).