Plasma uses regular icons with dark desktop theme

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 18 September 2015 23:55:41 David Rosca wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I use a Breeze Dark desktop theme and applications with default theme
> (that is regular Breeze color scheme and regular Breeze icons).
> 
> The issue is that some icons on desktop are used from regular Breeze
> instead of dark variant. It is because those icons are loaded with
> QIcon::fromTheme which uses the global icon theme and that is regular
> Breeze variant in my case.
> 
> So far I only came up with workaround in PlasmaCore.IconItem to
> specially use dark icons (locate the icon with KIconTheme) in this
> case. But this is a really ugly hack ...
> 
> How can we fix it? Or is this just unsupported setup, as it is not in
> official look and feel packages?

given that i still prefer the icons to come from the plasma theme where makes 
sense,
I wonder if we can use the heuristic of having a custom iconloader in the 
plasmashell process and attempt to use the theme themename-dark on themes with 
dark background

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Marco Martin