> I'll report back in an hour or so with the results.
> 

That was a wash. :( Same result.

Next I tried changing the various links to point to libpng12. ldd showed that kate built with libpng12 and libpng14, but once again, no icons in the kate toolbars.

Only kate is affected by this. No other app.

I noticed every time I start kate that something deletes the user's kateui.rc file, which would partially explain the lack of icons, although kate should revert to the default kateui.rc file.

I suppose next I'll try deleting all libpng14 files.

Listening for ideas....

Darrell