KDE apps have missing icons when not on Breeze

[Dominik Haumann]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:33 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> 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...)

Just yesterday Kåre worked around a similar issue when running
Kate in Gnome. See fix: https://phabricator.kde.org/D14856

Not nice, but worked.

Greetings
Dominik