It semms KDE totally ignores the scalable part of the Icon Theme Specification(http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html) As in the picture( http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/shot38.php ) from left to right the tango icon theme index.theme, the example on freedesktop.org, a dolphin window with the 48px svg icons scaled to 96px and a window how they really look Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download the tango theme https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/tango-icon-theme 2. install & set 3. open dolphin and set the icon size to more than 48px
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 190385 ***