Kde Plasma app launcher not displaying category icons

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Hello, I am having a weird issue with the menu app launcher on Plasma. I installed the Papirus icon theme, set it and everything works except the icons in the app launcher categories are missing (some of them). I installed the theme via pacman. The weird thing is that when I right click on the launcher and open “Edit applications…” I see the icons of the categories, but not in the actual launcher, like this:

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one workaround I found is by setting the icon to basically the same icon, but with a different name. The same icon for “Applications Games” is also
under “org.gnome.Games”. Then the icon shows. This is a workaround, but doesn’t address why it doesn’t work with the “original icon”. This only happens for the Papirus icon theme. For example Quogir icon theme works normally. I also tried removing plasma related items in .cache direcotry, that doesn’t work. It persists between reboots.

Thank you for your time and help.

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Since Plasma 6.2, launcher started using symbolic icons for menu items. So, applications-games is actually using applications-games-symbolic . Symbolic icons can change their color based on themes. This helps devs to give a better user experience across light and dark themes.
You can change it in kind of a hack.

  1. Open Dolphin and go to /usr/share/icons/breeze/categories/22/
  2. Note all the -symbolic icons name.
  3. Now go to “/usr/share/icons/Papirus/22x22/apps/” and search for those icons.
  4. Copy those icons someplace.
  5. Now rename them, example- 1.svg,2.svg etc.
  6. Open menu editor and pick the new icons.
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