Plasma 6.2 - the broken Steam icon is still broken

[anon96750329]

I had hoped to get an answer to my request months ago regarding the broken Steam icon at the bottom of the taskbar. Nobody cares … Then I pinned my hopes on the 6.2 update - still the same problem: In Breeze Light Mode, the Steam icon at the bottom of the taskbar is broken, i.e. something indefinable is displayed, which looks totally stupid on a white bar and is extremely detrimental to the perfection of Plasma:

[luisbocanegra]

Shouldn’t that be fixed by Steam providing an icon that follows the system colors? See System Tray Icon Light Theme · Issue #4281 · ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux · GitHub

Plasma can take some application tray icons from the icon theme, not sure if this depends on the application allowing or something Plasma itself can override (probably the first). So you have some options:

• Wait for plasma to ship their own steam icon, assuming this is allowed by steam, kde wants it and someone designs it for to fit with the default breeze icon theme.
• Use a custom icon theme that has the steam icon e.g Papirus:
  
• If you want to keep using breeze icons you can create a custom theme with just that icon and make the icon theme inherit the breeze for all other icons, this is a more involved process but only needs to be done once compared to placing the icon in the system folders for example.
  • Specification: Icon Theme Specification
  • Example: papirus-colors/Papirus-Colors/index.theme at ae694e120110ab30ead27c66abc68e74dfd4e4f5 · varlesh/papirus-colors · GitHub
• Use my widget Panel Colorizer, it can (among other things) force tray icon colors to match the system theme:
  

[anon96750329]

@luisbocanegra

If you want to keep using breeze icons you can create a custom theme with just that icon and make the icon theme inherit the breeze for all other icons, this is a more involved process but only needs to be done once compared to placing the icon in the system folders for example.

thx @luisbocanegra , but all these options are not what I had in mind. These posts on githab are already several years old and obviously all the blame for the problem lies with Steam alone. For example, if I follow the instructions from

System Tray Icon Light Theme

this will be overwritten with the next Steam update. I’d rather think about using a different icon theme.

But thanks for your affords.

[luisbocanegra]

Yeah, that’s why I didn’t suggest the workaround mentioned in the linked issue.

Unfortunately, this is a pretty common issue with applications that expose System tray status indicators, but those “workarounds/fixes” I suggested get the job done at least for some apps, and for users like me that aren’t designers but still care about consistency is what matters.

For example I have been using Papirus icons for some years now, partially because I really like them but mostly because if one of the most complete ones.

Hopefully with the redesign happening around icons things improve, but there is always need for more designers contributing as there are so many icons, and obviously they’re focusing on the existing ones, and even after that is completed, including third party icons may still depend on someone who cares enough about consistence and this particular app contributing with that icon.

If you/someone wants to help here’s what they need help with Plasma Icon Update - August 2024 - #3 by Anditosan and here how to start Get Involved/design - KDE Community Wiki