Some icons missing in KDE apps

raggerv8 · 2026-04-07 20:44:48

I installed an icon theme and it works perfectly in GTK apps and Qt apps, except KDE apps. For example, the icons work without issues in pcmanfm-qt and lxqt-archiver, but some icons are missing and fallback to some KDE-default in krusader and ark.

Please see these screenshots as examples.
pcmanfm-qt shows icons fine, and you can tell that .zip, .tar and .jar files all get the archive-icon.

In krusader however, only .jar files get the archive-icon. Surprisingly, .zip and .tar get some KDE fallback icon.

I do not run KDE or GNOME or any DE, I only use a window manager so I set this icon theme in GTK3 settings.ini (using lxappearance) as well as qt5ct and qt6ct. I have been reading the different pages on the wiki (Uniform look for Qt and GTK applications, Qt, KDE) but I can't figure this one out.

Here is a logfile starting krusader and ark in the terminal. https://bpa.st/raw/ODQHY

Last edited by raggerv8 (2026-04-07 20:46:43)

seth · 2026-04-07 21:17:48

strace krusader |& grep icons

I suspect it loads some special sub-icon type that's not provided by the tango theme for those mime types - you could then symlink those.

raggerv8 · 2026-04-08 19:08:34

seth wrote:

strace krusader |& grep icons
I suspect it loads some special sub-icon type that's not provided by the tango theme for those mime types - you could then symlink those.

The log file became too large for some pastebin services so I uploaded it to dropbox here.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2bczwebb … eaczankc85

I see some “No such file or directory” but it's a lot… But since Papirus icon theme seems to work fine I guess it's an issue with the Tango icon pack?

Last edited by raggerv8 (2026-04-08 19:11:18)

seth · 2026-04-08 19:43:06

access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/64/application-zip.png", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/64/application-zip.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/32/application-zip.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22@3x/application-zip.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22@2x/application-zip.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22/application-zip.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/16@3x/application-zip.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/16@2x/application-zip.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/16/application-zip.svg", F_OK) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22/application-zip.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 25
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22/application-zip.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 25
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/64/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/32/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22@3x/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22@2x/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/16@3x/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/16@2x/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", F_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/16/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", F_OK) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 27
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/breeze/mimetypes/22/application-x-compressed-tar.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 27

Files don't exist in Tango

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#1 2026-04-07 20:44:48

Some icons missing in KDE apps

#2 2026-04-07 21:17:48

Re: Some icons missing in KDE apps

#3 2026-04-08 19:08:34

Re: Some icons missing in KDE apps

#4 2026-04-08 19:43:06

Re: Some icons missing in KDE apps

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