KDE apps have missing icons when not on Breeze

[Dominik Haumann]

...so should we revert the hack we did in Kate?

Greetings
Dominik


Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> schrieb am Di., 28. Aug. 2018, 22:45:

> 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
> > >
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