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This is the vanilla state each user will get if Kate is installed on Plasma (and the dark theme is used). There are no patches done during building to achieve that nor is there any extra user configuration necessary. -### Windows +### Microsoft Windows -
+If you run Kate on Windows, the icon situation is good, too, if you use our Windows Store variant or get at build done via Craft. -### macOS +See below what the current nightly of Kate looks like in some Windows 11 VM (I just started it from the unpacked ZIP, no setup needed). -
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+ +In the Craft build descriptions we do some patches to ensure the Breeze icons are bundled as library and the application links with that. +In addition we ensure with some more patching that our own icon engine is used to allow for the proper recoloring. + +If you don't do that patching you will end up with close to no icons or for dark theme black on black icons. + +### Apple's macOS + +The situation on macOS is the same as on Windows. + +If you go with a Craft build of Kate, you will end up with something like below. + +
+ +All icons are there and even application provided icons like our Git one are properly recolored. + +Without the Craft patches Kate has more or less no icons like on Windows. ## Feedback - -You can provide feedback on the matching [KDE Social](https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1212069), [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1chzmya/kde_kate_editor_icons_or_how_fedora_40_with_the/) or [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230558) post.