Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 04:55:34PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>> >> It may require wrapping as in commit
>> >> 9cc51d16cb22f8a0c50fe81c98abb3b9108db9ff.  Before this commit librecad
>> >> would not be able to render its icons as it had no runtime support for
>> >> plugins provided by qtsvg, which are accessed via QT_PLUGIN_PATH.
>> >
>> > It looks like propagating qtsvg would work too (which adds a search path
>> > for QT_PLUGIN_PATH).  Maybe we should do that on packages that installs
>> > icons as SVG files?
>> 
>> Leo: Does installing qtsvg into your profile fix the problem?
>
> Both options work. Which do you think is the better one?

Thanks for confirming.  That means this issue is actually a duplicate of
<https://bugs.gnu.org/22138>.

I think wrapping Krita is better "for now", although propagating qtsvg
somewhere could be a more general workaround.

We should fix that long-standing bug though...