Hi,
I've been (less and less) mildly annoyed by the use of what looks like Breeze
icons in what is probably the KFileWidget on Mac, where the same widget uses
the user-selected theme on Linux.
As you know I'm developing a platform theme plugin for Mac which among other
things allows feature parity in the look-and-feel department with Linux and
other *BSD versions (without imposing a non-native look btw).
If fitting in with native looks is important, Breeze and Breeze'ish icon themes
are probably the worst possible choice unless the goal is to emulate legacy
MacOS version the ran on the original Mac Classic with its tiny monochrome
screen.
In any case, I'd like to be able to provide users of my KF5/MacPorts packaging
with the option to use an icon theme that's a hand-picked combination of
various existing appropriate iconthemes, falling back on Oxygen (which looks
much less out-of-place than Breeze).
KDialog and Kate are prime examples of how I do NOT want file navigation trees
to look when I have selected my own icon theme. Other applications like
KDevelop still work as I expect them to, even in their implementation of such
navigation views.
I've been unable to find where those icons come from: apparently not from the
Breeze icon theme itself, and I don't install any binary icon resources
("iconthemes.rcc"), at least not to my knowledge.
So where do those icons come from, and why are some applications immune?
Pointers highly appreciated!
Thanks,
René
