This Week in Plasma: Artistry and accessibility - KDE Blogs

@Canoe, (you may), but I’m not. I might be psychologically, though, for I’m one of the seemingly very few people in the whole world that actually finds text easier to parse than iconography!

Luckily, this means I experience many of the same problems that those with visual impairment do when trying to change their preferences to fit what’s easiest for them (as it applies to icon/text label consistency between applications) because too many sidebars and toolbars (etcetera) hardcode:

  1. Symbolic (or colourful) icons; [1]
  2. Icons without a text fallback, or:
  3. Text without the option to replace or accompany that text with relevant iconography.

With the recent removal of the size override from kcm_icons being an explicit acknowledgement that this situation is dire, we’ve all got to put the work in, because it’s cut out for us.


  1. Symbolic Kickoff category icons in Plasma 6.2 have gathered some complaints (#142) · Issues · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab ↩︎

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