I am trying to delete the flat Breeze icons for Discord and Steam so that they present themselves in my system tray using their regular logos, but I can’t figure out where they are. I ran a search for them on /usr/share/icons, but all that returned was the hicolor ones I am actively trying to switch over to. Needless to say I’m a bit confused, the only icons I can find are the ones I want to use but they’re not the ones being used.
If there is no icon in the icon theme you’re using then it means the application is providing their own icons, there are ways to override these icons, sometimes they can be replaced by providing the named icon they want, but others it is just a hard-coded image, for such cases you have to wait for the application developer to fix it or “fix” it yourself:
Does the default steam icon just happen to fit in perfectly with the the Breeze icons? It’s not showing up as with the blue background.
That looks like the mono icon that ships with the steam package.
It must be. I assumed it was using a Breeze icon because it looks just like them, but if it ships with a flat icon by default then I guess there’s not much I can do lol.
You can override it by adding a new tray icon to your theme.
For example, my theme has replacement icons in /usr/share/icons/<themename>/<size>/panel/steam_tray_mono.svg
Good to know! Honestly surprised I didn’t think of that but hey, that’s what the community is there for. 
The suggestion is greatly appreciated. 
the steam full color icon on my install is located in
/usr/share/icons/breeze/apps/48/
the steam monotone system tray icon is found in
~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/
however what is found there is actually linked to
~/.steam/debian-installation/deb-installer/steam-launcher/icons/48/
Completely different setups. I am on Arch and have it installed directly through the official repos. When I run a search on the entirety of /usr/share/icons for “steam”, all it shows me are the full color icons despite the flat one being the one my tray gets.
This is the same for me.
Probably because your theme is missing the icon referenced above so the default one from the package is used.
Was replying to this
Also I’m using Breeze Dark.
pretty sure even on arch the package plasma-sdk can be found and installed.
it contains a utility called cuttlefish that lets you browse and find icons
that’s how i found the paths i posted… your paths might be different on different distros, but cuttlefish will find them.
@skyfishgoo, I already did exactly that following another thread I found. As stated by @dalto, Steam just happens to ship with a flat icon that looks like it was designed for Breeze, lol. It’s fine though; if you can’t beat em, join em.
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@nathaniel.krebs, you can find it in the Icon Set → Status folder. The filename is steam_tray_mono.
Lol, I ran a search for that file on my entire /. Turns out, Steam didn’t even drop the icon in a system-wide path; it’s in my home directory… /home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/public/steam_tray_mono.png. That doesn’t explain why it doesn’t show up in cuttlefish though—unless someone else knows why.
By the way @dirn, what icon theme is that? It might be the solution to all my problems tbh.
A package can’t install files to your home directory. Although, the application itself could at runtime.
You can see where it is installed like this if you are using the system package:
>> pacman -Ql steam | grep mono [1]
steam /usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png
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Exactly! I knew pacman wouldn’t touch my home directory—I figured Steam itself must have copied the asset over to ~/.local during its own runtime setup after I launched it from my account, hence the head scratching when I couldn’t find its global location.
I really appreciate the pacman -Ql tip, though! I ran it and it showed me the /usr/share/pixmaps/ path, which is exactly the system-wide location I was originally trying to find.
Honestly, though, at this point I’m mostly just hoping to find out what icon theme @dirn is using in their screenshot, since applying that would probably just solve my visual consistency issue altogether!
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YAMIS, It’s pure monochrome. I think you prefer color icons so it’s the opposite spectrum to your liking 