Bug 501500

Summary:	If an app asks for `foo-symbolic` at a certain size and it doesn't exist in the theme, return `foo` at the same size rather than `foo-symbolic` at a smaller size
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kiconthemes	Reporter:	varlesh <varlesh>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Christoph Feck <cfeck>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.12.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501436
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Klipper example logic work

Description varlesh 2025-03-14 17:51:10 UTC

Moved form https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501436

if on icon theme available "foo-symbolic" 22px and "foo" 32px icons - the "foo-symbolic" icon will still be used for hidden menu, ignoring the dimensions and scaling the icon from 22px to 32px size.
Reproduced on hide menu tray widget.
Tray icons used "Kirigami.Units.iconSizes.medium"
But hide tray menu use "Kirigami.Units.iconSizes.smallMedium"

Comment 1 varlesh 2025-03-14 18:25:21 UTC

Created attachment 179395 [details]
Klipper example

Comment 2 varlesh 2025-03-15 06:17:45 UTC

if icon theme use 22px "Kirigami.Units.iconSizes.smallMedium" icons for tray monochrome (-symbolic suffix), but for 32px colorfull "Kirigami.Units.iconSizes.medium" anyway Hide Meny Tray Widget use 22px stretched and zoomed "-symbolic" icon from 22px to 32px and ignore that  non -symbolic 32px icon available on icon theme. See example on attached file.

"klipper-symbolic" 22px used on tray - good!  it's "Kirigami.Units.iconSizes.smallMedium"
"klipper-symbolic" 22px stretched and zoomed to 32px for hide menu tray widget - bad! it's "Kirigami.Units.iconSizes.medium"
"klipper" colorfull 32px available on icon theme but not used on hide menu tray widget

Comment 3 varlesh 2025-03-15 06:23:53 UTC

The idea of the implementation is to use small 22px icons with the suffix "-symbolic". But for larger sizes of 32px, use a colorfull icon.
On Plasma 5 it's possible doing with plasma theme. But now icons from plasma theme not used!

Comment 4 varlesh 2025-03-15 07:08:55 UTC

Created attachment 179413 [details]
logic work

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-03-17 17:31:28 UTC

I think this makes sense. If the icon loader returns foo-symbolic at a smaller size, we know it will be scaled up and become blurry. Probably better to return a correctly-sized non-symbolic icon than to get a blurry symbolic icon.