Created attachment 167718 [details] KMail with monochromatic icon with unread emails SUMMARY Several apps, such as KMail or Konversation, use the colorful icons in the system tray when there are no new emails or notifications, but they change to the monochromatic version when they change status. I hope this is not intentional and it's a regression form KF5 -> KF6, because it looks super weird to have icons change style depending on the status. Also, if that's on purpose, I think it should be the other way around, since the color version brings more attention to the user than the monochromatic one. I attach two screenshots where you can see "this bug" affecting the KMail icon. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a screenshot with Konversation in the other status, but I guess it's easy to reproduce. By the way, I can observe the issue both with Qt 6.6 and Qt 6.7. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open KMail 2. Mark any email as unread OBSERVED RESULT Switch between colorful and monochromatic icons EXPECTED RESULT Monochromatic icons should always be used in the system tray SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Kernel Version: 6.8.1-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core Processor Memory: 93.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Manufacturer: ASUS
Created attachment 167719 [details] KMail with colorful icon with all emails read
These are all app issues in Plasma 6. The apps need to ask for an icon with "-symbolic" appended to the end for their tray icons for all states (not just some states, or no states--which leaves it up to the whims of the icon theme). See how this was done already for KTeaTime: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kteatime/-/merge_requests/16/ Moving to KMail. Konversation should probably get its own bug report.
Git commit ed6d4274b4b1b1064625d3e064874c7ade666724 by Laurent Montel. Committed on 28/03/2024 at 05:58. Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'release/24.02'. Fix bug 484420: Monochromatic icons in system tray not always used FIXED-IN: 24.02.2 M +1 -1 src/kmsystemtray.cpp https://invent.kde.org/pim/kmail/-/commit/ed6d4274b4b1b1064625d3e064874c7ade666724
Alright, good to know, thanks! I created a similar one line fix to Konversation. It works locally, but please double check: https://invent.kde.org/network/konversation/-/merge_requests/99