Dark icons with QT6 versions

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Hello everyone, this is the first time I’ve written a message here. Please excuse me in advance if I make any mistakes.
The last two versions, 24.02.0 and 24.02.1, of kdenlive work very well, but when I select a dark color scheme, the button icons remain black (they should change to white), which makes them very hard to see. I’ve read a lot of recent threads, but I can’t find anything about this. What can I do about this?

OpenSuse Tumbleweed 20240326
kdenlive 24.02.1 AppImage

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I also get dark icons; barely visible without mousing-over each button individually.

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I do not have this problem when I run Kdenlive 24.02.1 Appimage in Ubuntu Studio, nor do I have this problem when I run Kdenlive 24.02.1 in Windows 11 23H2.

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I can confirm GUI icons and buttons remain dark when a dark theme is selected. See image.

Ubuntu MATE 20.04.6 using the Flatpak of Kdenlive 24.02.1.

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I’m also experiencing a similar problem, but with LibreOffice Flatpak. I use Dark theme system wide, but LibreOffice is now stuck in Light mode.
Even trying to force the theme in Options > LibreOffice > View > Appearance is useless.

Buttons are always in Light theme, and only icons on the buttons follow the theme.

I’m using Neon User Edition.

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Thank you all for your replies. So the bug is confirmed and apparently there is no immediate solution. Should I create an Issue?

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If there’s already a bug report, linking to it here would be helpful.

If there is no bug report already, then creating one would be helpful.

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Done : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485016

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Have you enabled this option? (see screenshot)
It usually fixed the problem once enabled.

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For what it’s worth, on my system, “Force Breeze Icon Theme” enabled or disabled doesn’t fix the dark icons problem.

System: Kernel: 6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 [6.5.3-1~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.2_ahs_x64 Libretto October 15 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

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I too had tested this option before posting my first message here, without success.

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I confirm the bug with kdenlive-24.02.1-x86_64.AppImage.

Each time you modify your global theme, in Kdenlive go to Settings> Color Scheme, select any theme then reset it to Default, it will automatically pick the currently applied global theme.

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I don’t know what changed with my system (which previously had dark icons), but I was surprised to see white icons showing up in my kdnelive 24.02.2 now! I wish I could say what fixed it, but I have no idea. I didn’t play with any settings in kdenlive. All I can remember is that I did some apt-get update and installed an app or two, totally unrelated to kdenlive.

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Thanks for the information.
Since I’m using the stable version 24.2.2 appimage, the icons were still black. So I loaded the daily build 8107 appimage and indeed, the icons are now white. If I don’t have too many stability problems, while waiting for the next stable version, I’ll continue with this one.
Bug 485016, which I had opened in this connection, is still open and has not been modified.

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As you already noticed we fixed this recently hence in the nightly version and the upcoming 24.05 release this should be fixed.

If you are technically interested in the topic: there is an ongoing discussion about the general approach for KDE apps in the kde-devel mailinglist RFC: Theming and styles of KDE applications

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Thank you very much for your reply and your explanations. I have read (not totally… ;-)) the discussion. It’s fascinating. You can’t imagine what a seemingly insignificant little problem hides behind the complexity of its implementation!
I’m switching the conversation to “solved”.

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Hi,

I’m running 24.05 on Arch Linux, but I am still getting the black-on-black icon experience…

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I am experiencing this with release version 24.05 on Arch Linux as well.

I am getting the light theme icons when using the dark theme, which makes them barely visible.

Toggling “Force Breeze Icon Theme” does not influence the issue.
Style is set to default. Unsetting QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME does not influence the issue.
The only way for the icons to be visible is to use the “Materia Light” color scheme.