Plasma 6: Dolphin 24.02.1 sidebar Icons are not using the "symbolic" Icons

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After updating to KDE Plasma 6 and Dolphin 24.xx.xx my sidebar icons are not the ones that are supposed be (Symbolic Icons). I use Arch linux and I updated a long time ago and this problem appeared but I thought it was a bug but it doesn’t seem to be fixed in the latest version of KDE Plasma anyways.

So, how I can fix this? I need to delete some configuration files for dolphin so I can make Dolphin look like it was before?

This is how it looks like now.

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As it can be seen, Recent Location and Files are using Symbolic Icons but others are not.

I am using Wayland by the way.

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I also noticed this with my installation, but only if I use something other than Breeze Light. Both Breeze Dark and Breeze Twilight have this issue.

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Which icon size are you using? You can change the icon size by right-clicking the sidebar and using the “icon size” menu that shows up.

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Small 16x16

As @Balder said. I tried setting my Global Theme from Breeze Dark (Which I use) to either Breeze and Breeze Twilight and those 2 themes show the symbolic icons in Dolphin.

If I change back to Breeze Dark the icons are back to the ones that I showed in the OP picture.

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A change in size has no effect.

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Do you use fractional scaling? I also have this problem and I think it’s because of that.

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A workaround is to manually change the icons to the -symbolic version (right click > edit)

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@aronkvh Thank you, although this works for every icon except the trash icon, where it doesn’t let you set a custom icon.

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I still have this problem with a fully updated system (Arch Linux).

KDE Plasma 6.1.5
KDE Framework: 6.6.0
Qt: 6.7.2

Using breeze dark global theme:

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Using breeze dark global theme without fractional scaling:

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Is this problem distro specific?

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I’ve the exact same issue as you, also running Arch Linux.

On my desktop, where I don’t use fractional scaling, I see the white icons.

On my Thinkpad X280, where I use 125% scaling, I see the colored ones.

I’d prefer to see the colored ones.