SUMMARY The title is pretty self-explanatory, I don't know if it happens with some other icon theme, but with Papirus-Adapta you get a plasmashell crash if you try to change Kickoff's icon. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set Adapta-Papirus as your icon theme 2. Try to change Kickoff's icon OBSERVED RESULT Plasmashell crashes EXPECTED RESULT You can change the icon SOFTWARE VERSIONS (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.51 Qt Version: 5.11.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This is what plasmashell spews out during the ordeal: " KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/plasmashell from kdeinit sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0 KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = plasmashell path = /usr/bin pid = 13900 KCrash: Arguments: /usr/bin/plasmashell " Let me know if I can help with some more detailed logging and how. I also tried this out with a completely new user and the same happened.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 398766 ***