Bug 438191

Summary:	Deprecate the concept of icons in the Plasma theme
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Podagric <kde.podagric>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED
Severity:	task	CC:	KDE, nate, nicolas.fella, plasma-bugs, postix
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	5.21.90
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373087 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410652 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467178 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461166 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432962 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445518
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Attachments:	audio applet network applet disks applet klipper applet

Description Podagric 2021-06-07 00:14:34 UTC

SUMMARY
I checked other bug reports and saw that the expected behavior is that the plasmashell's own icons are displayed even if there is another icon pack being used instead of breeze. But that's not what's happening.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install some icon pack, such as Papirus
2. Apply

OBSERVED RESULT
Breeze and papirus icons will blend together
See attachments


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.83.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-73-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

Comment 1 Podagric 2021-06-07 00:14:57 UTC

Created attachment 139058 [details]
audio applet

Comment 2 Podagric 2021-06-07 00:15:17 UTC

Created attachment 139059 [details]
network applet

Comment 3 Podagric 2021-06-07 00:15:39 UTC

Created attachment 139060 [details]
disks applet

Comment 4 Podagric 2021-06-07 00:15:56 UTC

Created attachment 139061 [details]
klipper applet

Comment 5 Nicolas Fella 2021-06-07 20:23:35 UTC

I think there might be a misunderstanding here. Can you link to the report where you saw this?

Comment 6 Podagric 2021-06-07 21:34:15 UTC

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373087
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410652

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2021-06-09 19:24:06 UTC

Icons from the icon theme get used in any case where a Plasma applet requests an icon, but that icon isn't found in the Plasma theme. So when you apply the Papirus icon theme, those icons in your screenshots come from Papirus because they are not present in the active Plasma theme (which has a small number of Breeze-style icons in it).

Yes, this is super confusing and weird. I think ultimately we need to deprecate the concept of "icons in the Plasma theme" as it makes it confusing and non-deterministic as to where any icon in any Plasma thing will come from, and you always wind up with bizarrely mixed icons like this anytime you use 3rd-party icon themes.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2023-04-27 19:29:58 UTC

We're discussing this in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/issues/82 now; let's continue there.