Bug 407005 - Add option to choose fallback icon theme
Summary: Add option to choose fallback icon theme
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_icons (show other bugs)
Version: 5.15.4
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2019-04-28 09:23 UTC by David
Modified: 2023-08-06 16:37 UTC (History)
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Description David 2019-04-28 09:23:09 UTC
When selecting an icon theme for KDE (System Settings -> Icons), many of the available icon themes lack icons for some mimetypes or applications. Would be nice if it could have an option to get a fallback theme, such that when the selected theme doesn't have an icon for a file that is to be displayed, it would try to use an icon from the fallback theme if available.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-04-30 15:18:37 UTC
This is currently implicit to the theme, and not exposed in the UI. I'm not sure how much we really want to do this.

What themes are you finding have the fallback theme set improperly such that you're wanting to change it?
Comment 2 David 2019-04-30 15:22:26 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> This is currently implicit to the theme, and not exposed in the UI. I'm not
> sure how much we really want to do this.
> 
> What themes are you finding have the fallback theme set improperly such that
> you're wanting to change it?

Oxygen for example (which doesn't have nearly as many icons as, say, Papirus), and themes downloaded from kde-look, which oftentimes have only a few icons (such as the latest submitted theme with the old crystal icons for kde5).
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2019-04-30 17:30:55 UTC
Which theme would you like set as a fallback? IIRC these all have Breeze listed, which seems sane enough as a default.
Comment 4 David 2019-04-30 17:49:10 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> Which theme would you like set as a fallback? IIRC these all have Breeze
> listed, which seems sane enough as a default.

I'd like to set Papirus as a fallback theme. And not all of them fall back to breeze: for the example CrystalSVG falls back to oxygen:
https://store.kde.org/p/1253578/

Others don't even have a fallback theme.

Then, even for breeze, there's some things that don't have icons.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2019-04-30 18:27:04 UTC
Thanks. Given the diversity of how 3rd-party themes can come set up out of the box, this doesn't seem totally unreasonable.