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title: "KDE Applications & Icons" title: "KDE Applications & Icons"
date: 2024-05-11T00:36:00+02:00 date: 2024-05-11T00:36:00+02:00
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categories: [kde] categories: [kde]
tags: [kde] tags: [kde]
url: /posts/kde-applications-and-icons/ url: /posts/kde-applications-and-icons/
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The above applications are part of the KDE Gear releases, but the described issues and solutions naturally are not restricted to stuff released with that. The above applications are part of the KDE Gear releases, but the described issues and solutions naturally are not restricted to stuff released with that.
Therefore, all talked about in this post is only interesting for such applications. What most of these applications have in common is that they rely on rather large parts of our Frameworks.
With that they depend at least indirectly on an icon set that covers large parts of what our default icon set Breeze provides.
Even if you use no icons from that icon set yourself in your application, just using the standard actions or many widgets/dialogs from Frameworks will rely on some subset of Breeze.
## My Icons are fine ## The great Divider, your Desktop or Platform
When talking about the current situation of icons that depends largely on the desktop or platform you are running the KDE application on.
Let's take a look at some (I for sure miss some that are common or loved, that doesn't mean I disregard them, I just want to limit the scope).
### KDE Plasma (on Linux/BSD with Wayland/X11)
If you just aim to run on the KDE Plasma desktop with your Qt and KDE Frameworks based application, all is fine with icons, there is no problem. If you just aim to run on the KDE Plasma desktop with your Qt and KDE Frameworks based application, all is fine with icons, there is no problem.
The KDE project did their job, at least for Kate I never did have any issues with icons on Plasma. The KDE project did their job, at least for Kate I never did have any issues with icons on Plasma.