Bug 477966

Summary:	"kdeconnect-symbolic" and "kdeconnect-tray" icons shouldn't have a gear in them
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	Jin Liu <ad.liu.jin>
Component:	Icons	Assignee:	visual-bugs-null
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	kainz.a, m, nate, realkpavel
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version First Reported In:	5.90.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	6.4.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Jin Liu 2023-12-03 02:18:46 UTC

SUMMARY
1. They are too different from each other. It's not obvious that they are presenting the same app.
2. The main icon has a simpler outline, which better resembles a modern smartphone.
3. The gear in the tray icon hints that it's some kind of "configure" tool, which it's not. The kdeconnect tray icon is mainly used to control the phone, so it should just resemble a phone. (just like the printer tray icon resembles a printer, and the disks tray icon resembles a USB stick)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.90.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.246.0
Qt Version: 6.6.1
Kernel Version: 6.6.3-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: offscreen
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 13.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-12-04 21:40:04 UTC

kdeconnect-symbolic also has a gear. That's probably the major issue.

Comment 2 Jin Liu 2023-12-05 00:59:33 UTC

Yeah, the gear is the major issue. But also I feel that in the symbolic version, the "phone outline", with a small white bar at the top, doesn't look like a modern smartphone. The non-symblolic version, which is just a black box, is more like one.

Comment 3 Kat Pavlu 2025-06-21 15:19:49 UTC

This appears to have been fixed in KDE Frameworks 6.14, about a month ago.
The exact merge request is here:
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/-/merge_requests/464/commits