[Breeze] [Bug 417969] New: Inability to deterministically choose when an icon should be monochrome and when it should be colorful

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417969

            Bug ID: 417969
           Summary: Inability to deterministically choose when an icon
                    should be monochrome and when it should be colorful
           Product: Breeze
           Version: 5.18.1
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Icons
          Assignee: visual-design at kde.org
          Reporter: nate at kde.org
                CC: kainz.a at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

Breeze icons currently come in two styles: monochrome and colorful.

Generally, the monochrome style is used for small icons: 16px, 22px, and 24px
(for compatibility with GTK which uses the 24px size). Colorful icons are
generally 32px or larger.

This leads to a general rule: use monochrome for small icons, and color for
large icons. This works fine for icons all of whose sizes are in one style or
the other.

It stops working so well for icons that have multiple sizes, with small
monochrome versions and larger colorful versions, because some of the time we
want to use colorful icons for small sizes and some of the time we want to use
monochrome icons for large sizes.

For example, we want an app's icon to be colorful for the small 16px version
shown in the titlebar, but monochrome if it happens to have a system tray icon
(e.g. Plasma Vault). And we want toolbar icons to continue to use the
monochrome style at 32px and larger sizes even if they happen to have colorful
versions.

Right now we don't really have a way to do this within the confines of a single
icon theme.

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