SUMMARY firewall-applet uses new icons for the system tray since version 0.7, firewall-applet-shield_up and firewall-applet-shield_down. firewall-applet-shield_up is part of the breeze icon theme, but firewall-applet-shield_down is not. This is normally not a problem (because firewall-applet is used as fallback), but it causes the icon to be dark with dark themes so it's barely visible. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set "Oxygen" as desktop theme (without changing the color scheme) 2. Install firewall-applet 0.7+ and run it (firewalld needs to be active) OBSERVED RESULT The systray icon is dark on a dark background, and thus barely visible EXPECTED RESULT Should be white. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0 Qt Version: 5.14.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This was originally filed downstream: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1157921 Creating a symlink (or copy) firewall-applet-shield_down -> firewall-applet fixes the problem, the icons gets recolored as expected then. (older firewall-applet versions used only the 'firewall-applet' icon so are/were not affected) This might point to a bug in the icon loader when doing the fallback, I suppose.
Created attachment 126097 [details] Screenshot showing the problem Attached a screenshot with "Oxygen" as desktop theme and "Breeze" color scheme.
Created attachment 126098 [details] Screenshot after manually adding a firewall-applet-shields_down icon And another screenshot how it looks after I manually added firewall-applet-shields_down.svg (as a symlink to firewall-applet.svg), the icon is white now as it should be. So, to summarize, this could be fixed just by adding firewall-applet-shields_down to the breeze icon theme (even if it is just a symlink to the existing firewall-applet icon). But to me it seems to be a glitch in the icon loader, that maybe should be investigated as well.
Btw, the same happens with the "Breeze Dark" desktop theme, so it's not specific to "Oxygen"...
And perhaps I should add that it doesn't make a difference whether I use "breeze" or "breeze-dark" as icon theme (and deleting ~/.cache/icon-cache.kcache doesn't change anything either, so it's not due to an outdated icon cache).
The color problem for fallback icons will be fixed by https://phabricator.kde.org/D27589, I just tried it out. So it wouldn't really be necessary anymore to actually add the firewall-applet-shields_down icon explicitly.
Oh, that's nice!
Git commit b7fa6e0e916bd8856cbf85b2d3886bc1e7b0e278 by David Redondo. Committed on 02/03/2020 at 10:55. Pushed by davidre into branch 'master'. Try to apply the colorscheme of the current theme to QIcons Summary: Before icons loaded internally with QIcon::fromTheme were being colored with the colors from the current global color scheme instead of the ones from the current Plasma Theme. Leading to visual bugs when the two differ. This happened because KIconLoader uses the global color scheme by default. A prominent case is the notification send by the network plasmoid when one successfully connected to a wireless network. It sets the icon "network-wireless-on" which is not included in Breeze icons (but is included in Breeze Plasma Theme). If the current icon theme is indeed Breeze, IconItem resorts to using QIcon::fromTheme and we end up with a wrong colored "network-wireless" icon. Test Plan: {F8125752} {F8125753} Reviewers: #plasma, cblack, ngraham, mart Reviewed By: #plasma, cblack, ngraham, mart Subscribers: mart, wbauer, cblack, kde-frameworks-devel Tags: #frameworks Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D27589 M +4 -0 src/declarativeimports/core/iconitem.cpp M +2 -0 src/plasma/private/theme_p.cpp M +1 -0 src/plasma/private/theme_p.h M +6 -0 src/plasma/theme.cpp M +8 -0 src/plasma/theme.h https://commits.kde.org/plasma-framework/b7fa6e0e916bd8856cbf85b2d3886bc1e7b0e278