Bug 438191 - Deprecate the concept of icons in the Plasma theme
Summary: Deprecate the concept of icons in the Plasma theme
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.21.90
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR task
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
URL:
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2021-06-07 00:14 UTC by Podagric
Modified: 2023-05-05 15:54 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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disks applet (53.04 KB, image/png)
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klipper applet (51.64 KB, image/png)
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Description Podagric 2021-06-07 00:14:34 UTC 
SUMMARY
I checked other bug reports and saw that the expected behavior is that the plasmashell's own icons are displayed even if there is another icon pack being used instead of breeze. But that's not what's happening.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install some icon pack, such as Papirus
2. Apply

OBSERVED RESULT
Breeze and papirus icons will blend together
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SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.83.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-73-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Comment 1 Podagric 2021-06-07 00:14:57 UTC 
Created attachment 139058 [details]
audio applet
Comment 2 Podagric 2021-06-07 00:15:17 UTC 
Created attachment 139059 [details]
network applet
Comment 3 Podagric 2021-06-07 00:15:39 UTC 
Created attachment 139060 [details]
disks applet
Comment 4 Podagric 2021-06-07 00:15:56 UTC 
Created attachment 139061 [details]
klipper applet
Comment 5 Nicolas Fella 2021-06-07 20:23:35 UTC 
I think there might be a misunderstanding here. Can you link to the report where you saw this?
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2021-06-09 19:24:06 UTC 
Icons from the icon theme get used in any case where a Plasma applet requests an icon, but that icon isn't found in the Plasma theme. So when you apply the Papirus icon theme, those icons in your screenshots come from Papirus because they are not present in the active Plasma theme (which has a small number of Breeze-style icons in it).

Yes, this is super confusing and weird. I think ultimately we need to deprecate the concept of "icons in the Plasma theme" as it makes it confusing and non-deterministic as to where any icon in any Plasma thing will come from, and you always wind up with bizarrely mixed icons like this anytime you use 3rd-party icon themes.
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2023-04-27 19:29:58 UTC 
We're discussing this in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/issues/82 now; let's continue there.