[SOLVED] BackInTime package questions

[matm]

Hello

I'm using LM20 Cinnamon:

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System:    Host: imperator Kernel: 5.4.0-52-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana

When I decided to use BackInTime to backup my home, I choose the only package I had, backintime-qt, as backintime-qt4 was marked as transitional.
What bothers me is that I don't have any icon in the toolbar, just plain text.

1. Can anyone confirm they have the same issue in BackInTime ?
2. Is there a hidden setting to enable them back ?

Thanks for your inputs.

[AndyMH]

Check in synaptic, you should have backintime-common installed as well as backintime-qt.

[matm]

Looks like so:

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But if I run dpkg -L on both packages, I see very few picture files:

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➜ dpkg -L backintime-common backintime-qt | grep -E "\.(svg|png|jp*)"
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/show-hidden.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/show-hidden.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/actions/show-hidden.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/show-hidden.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/actions/show-hidden.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/show-hidden.svg

If icons are not bundled elsewhere, I think there is a miss on the packaging.

[AndyMH]

Does backintime have an icon against it in the mint menu, if so just delete the entry on the panel and recreate it (right click on it in the menu and add to panel).

The icon used is defined by the .desktop file for backintime in usr/share/applications:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Back In Time
GenericName=Backup
Exec=backintime-qt4
Icon=document-save
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Qt;KDE;GNOME;System;
Comment=Simple backup system
Comment[sl]=Enostaven sistem ustvarjanja varnostnih kopij
Keywords=automatic;snapshot;restore;rsync;

This is LM19.0, LM20.0 might use a different icon. Above defines the icon as document-save. That image file will live somewhere in usr/share/icons as a png or svg (or both).

[MrEen]

Hi Andy,

I believe the issue here is the Toolbar of BackInTime is all in text. No icons there. As it appears to be a qt app, I wasn't going to install it to see if there's a setting for that.

[Larry78723]

If installed from synaptic, backintime-common, backintime-qt and backintime-qt4 need to be installed in order to have a full graphical interface on LM20 Cinnamon.

[AndyMH]

Apologies, misread earlier, was thinking panel not taskbar, this is what it should look like:

LM20 cinnamon with backintime-common and backintime-qt installed, backintime-qt4 not installed.

[MrEen]

The icons are part of the system theme as can be seen here: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/ ... qt/icon.py

I'm wondering if the OP were to click on Vue (View) would a translation of "Show Icons in Toolbar" be available.

EDIT: I looked through the source code and it appears to not be an option. I'm now thinking the theme in use might be the cause of this.

[AndyMH]

I'm wondering if the OP were to click on Vue (View) would a translation of "Show Icons in Toolbar" be available.

No. I went through all the menus and the only preferences relate to the snapshot settings, nothing on the visual appearance.

[matm]

Actually, I got the icons when I launch the program with the "Back In Time (root)" shortcut.

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Icons are taken from available themes in /usr/share/themes
I don't know why it works as root and not as a user.

[AndyMH]

Try other icon themes to see if that is the cause of the problem.

[matm]

OK,

I see that it turns around installed iconset (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/128 ... on-in-pyqt).

@AndyMH, Do you have a .icons folder ?

From SO answer, I tried

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python -i
# then typed
from PyQt5 import QtGui
for path in QtGui.QIcon.themeSearchPaths():
	print "%s => %s" % (path, QtGui.QIcon.themeName())

and got

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:/icons =>

I expected to get the default search path as the OP on SO. I may have an issue with Qt or python, since you got it right, and I doubt Linux Mint's team would have missed that.
It smells like a reinstall is coming...

BR,

[matm]

Issue is coming from my profile.
A clean profile under Cinnamon works nicely.
I need to find the culprit. Hunt has started !

[AndyMH]

@AndyMH, Do you have a .icons folder ?

Bit late , but yes - just checked a bare LM20 install, .icons folder was there so must have been created by default. Also checked .local/share/icons - doesn't exist, so must have created that one myself at some point in the past. I use .local/share/icons for anything I want in home - no particular reason, just the way I've done it.

[matm]

Solved by adding 'default' theme to the list in /usr/share/backintime/qt/icon.py

[AndyMH]

An easier solution:
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