Re: Need help - icons for shapes missing

[Don <don886 noark net>]

Steffen Macke wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
>  > Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
> '/usr/share/dia/shapes/Flowchart/display.png
>
> You picture is there in the right place, but there's a problem with the
> library to read the file.
> Could you check/reinstall your libgdk-pixbuf2.0?
> How did you install Dia (using the package manager or did you compile
> yourself) ?
> Are there other Debian Wheezy users having the same problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steffen

Thanks for the reply Steffen...

I have reinstalled libgdk-pixbuf2.0 once again a few minutes ago (I did 
it before also) with no change in results.  I used synaptic to do this. 
If I try to completely remove that lib file, it wants to remove a whole 
load of applications that use it too, so that is not an attractive path 
to follow.

I installed Dia from the Debian package archive for Wheezy (testing) 
using apt-get install dia.  The ownership/permissions on both the shape 
files and icons are the same and look OK.  Obviously, Dia is finding the 
shape file (since I can drag it to the working screen), but cannot find 
the .png file OR ELSE cannot process it.

I've had my call for help on the debian-user list for a week now and 
only received one brief response from a user asking a couple questions. 
 So, have no idea if others having problems with it or not.

I just got done installing Dia on my laptop computer, also running 
debian Wheezy, and it starts up well without the error message and with 
the shape icons properly displayed.  So I believe we can conclude that 
the problem is not in the Debian package.

Any further help or direction would be appreciated -- short of 
reinstalling Debian!  ;-)  I am using KDE instead of Gnome, but that 
should not make a difference (and I'm using KDE on the laptop too). 
Pointers welcome.  Could there be a missing lib file not in the depends? 
 One that would normally come with Gnome.

Don