Changing icon theme requires a power cycle??

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> This is on a fully updated F22 system.
>
> Used System Settings to change the icon theme from Breeze to Oxygen.  After doing so, the icons on the desktop did not change.  So, I did a logout/login.  When KDE started the apper icon in the systray popped up this warning:
>
> Authorization Failed:  You have failed to provide correct authentication.  Please check any passwords or account settings.
>
> I could not figure what was wrong, so I decided to reboot.  However, it seems impossible to reboot.
>
> [root at f22k ~]# systemctl reboot
> Failed to start reboot.target: Access denied
>
> I had to power cycle the system and then all was "OK".  Not sure what component to write the BZ against.  Any idea?
>
> --
> It seems most people that say they are "done talking about it" never really are until given the last word.

FWIW, in-order to force Plasma 2 to reload the icons w/o logout/login
cycle do the following:
1. Open konsole/xterm.
2. Type:
$ kquitapp plasmashell
$ plasmashell &
3. Exit konsole/xterm.

- Gilboa