Bug 503118

Summary: audio-volume-medium-symbolic.svg icon should either look better or not exist
Product: [Plasma] Oxygen Reporter: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev>
Component: iconsAssignee: pinheiro <nuno>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: isma.af, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.3.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alexander Potashev 2025-04-21 15:00:22 UTC
Created attachment 180484 [details]
screenshot

SUMMARY
Icon theme (oxygen) not applied: monochrome icon instead of oxygen/base/22x22/status/audio-volume-medium.png.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install package oxygen-icon-theme (on Fedora 41)
2. Verify that it has colorful icons, for example /usr/share/icons/oxygen/base/22x22/status/audio-volume-medium.png has a grey-yellow speaker with lightgreen arcs (representing soundwaves)
3. Select Oxygen under systemsettings -> Icons.

OBSERVED RESULT
Some icons are probably from Oxygen, but volume control widget uses a monochrome icon, not sure where it comes from. In the screenshot, on the bottom: see volume control in the center. In the screenshot on the top: icons from /usr/share/icons/oxygen/base/22x22/status, for example audio-volume-medium.png in the center.

EXPECTED RESULT
Oxygen icons should be used.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.11-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 15.4 ГиБ of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® HD Graphics 530
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-04-22 15:46:17 UTC
That's not a Breeze icon. I think you'll need to figure out where the icon does come from in order for this to be actionable. Can you do that?
Comment 2 Alexander Potashev 2025-04-22 21:33:47 UTC
> Can you do that?

Okay, I guess it's time to pay the skill tax.

strace shows that icon is /usr/share/icons/oxygen/applets/22x22/audio-volume-medium-symbolic.svg. Whatever "-symbolic" is, I don't like it, it wasn't even a thing in the 2000s.

Fixed with "sudo rm /usr/share/icons/oxygen/*/*/*-symbolic.*" until next software update, I wish it was easily configurable.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-04-23 07:11:14 UTC
Cool, I had a feeling this was actually an icon in the icon theme. Moving to Oxygen.
Comment 4 pinheiro 2025-04-23 08:30:29 UTC
plasma expect symbolic icons for systray icons.

oxygen still as colorfull icons for actions icons (the ones used inside traditional qt widgets apps)

historicly oxygen never had the systray icons, those used to be part of the plasma themes

"recently" plasma decided to use symbolic icons for that... Oxygen just followed it as it has specific cororing  features to allow thrming adherence...
Comment 5 pinheiro 2025-04-23 08:35:58 UTC
I undertand that some people want colorfull icons for the system try, feal free to repropose oxygen and simply create simlinks to the action ones, and maybe publish new version of oxygen...
I would have no issue with a litle bit of software inside oxygen that would give that option to users.... if some one wants to do that i will aprove that on the git repo, maybe a small configure icon pointing to a setings ui on the oxygen icon theme option on system settings