KDE apps have missing icons when not on Breeze

[Albert Vaca]

Do you think it's a good idea to ask packagers to make KIconThemes depend
on Breeze icons?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 19:29 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El dimecres, 29 d’agost de 2018, a les 12:56:53 CEST, Aleix Pol va
> escriure:
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:45 PM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > El dijous, 16 d’agost de 2018, a les 15:19:36 CEST, Albert Astals Cid
> va escriure:
> > > > Missatge de Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com> del dia dj., 16
> d’ag. 2018 a
> > > > les 13:57:
> > > >
> > > > > 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?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > If we can get this accepted into Qt
> > > >     https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/237025/
> > > > Which i think we could since it mimics nicely the setThemeName
> > > > functionality.
> > > >
> > > > We can then just add a Q_COREAPP_STARTUP_FUNCTION in KIconTheme that
> does
> > > >   QIcon::setFallbackThemeName("breeze");
> > > >
> > > > And that'd be a one place fix all solution.
> > >
> > > FWIW this just landed
> > > https://phabricator.kde.org/D14983
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >   Albert
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >   Albert
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > (Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list.)
> > > > >
> > > > > Albert
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > This will still not fix it entirely, as not every application will be
> > linking against KIconThemes, especially on Gnome.
>
> KXMLGui links against KIconThemes.
>
> Any application that pretends to look like a desktop application should be
> using KXmlGui.
>
> Applications that are too fancy for their own good and don't want to use
> KXmlGui can call that one liner by themselves if they care about their look
> and feel on Gnome desktops.
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
> >
> > Aleix
>
>
>
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