KDE apps have missing icons when not on Breeze

[David Faure]

On jeudi 16 août 2018 12:43:47 CEST Albert Vaca wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> If we want to reach more potential users, we have to make sure KDE
> apps look properly in every desktop. Take a look at how KDE apps look
> in Gnome, you will see there are lots of missing icons.
> 
> https://imgur.com/a/nkeiryb
> 
> It think it is important to get this fixed, as it can make people not
> use our apps.
> 
> Note that, on the other hand, Gnome apps look good in Plasma even when
> Breeze doesn't have the icons they need. This is because they fall
> back to their own theme when an icon is not found in the system theme:
> I just tested it setting the icon theme to Breeze on Gnome, and
> deleting the "actions" directory from Breeze, they show the Gnome
> icons instead.
> 
> Anyone has a suggestion on how to fix this?
> 
> (Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list.)

Antonio is the expert for such questions ;)

Antonio, is this a case of going further than what the icon theme spec says 
one should do?

(Apologies if we already discussed this in the past, I have a deja-vu 
feeling...)

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5