Folder icons not looking right

[Prayag2]

Folder icons in Dolphin don't look quite right. Here are some screenshots:

On dark themes

On light themes

The colour of the emblems should be dark when the folder colour is light and light when the folder colour is dark.

[luisbocanegra]

Have you tried using the new option to switch between icon themes? It was added in the latest version. Can you also share how does it look with the default breeze dark and light themes? Never noticed this because I always use Papirus icons, and checking right now it seems like my dolphin is a bit buggy as selecting makes the folders all white.

[Prayag2]

Default Breeze Dark:

Default Breeze Light:

ohh it's working fine with kde-material-you-colors --iconslight ICONSLIGHT

but the colour of the small icons in the sidebar look weird :/

[luisbocanegra]

Thanks.

ohh it's working fine with kde-material-you-colors --iconslight ICONSLIGHT

Are you running it exactly like that? Probably not but just to be sure, you have to pass after --iconslight the name of one of the installed icon themes.

[Prayag2]

Yes, I'm running it exactly like that lol

[Prayag2]

I made a mistake!! I was using a custom accent colour that's why it was working :( When using the accent colour of the colour scheme, it's still not working:

[luisbocanegra]

Okay, I will check this later, thanks for reporting it.

[luisbocanegra]

Update, tried reducing the tint of folders background with

[Colors:Selection]
BackgroundNormal=

until icons were readable, but didn't like the result as it also affected other elements that looked right otherwise :-1:

For the folder icons, Breeze uses window text color, which is almost black (light theme) or white (dark theme)

[Colors:Window]
ForegroundNormal=

I think this is more of a conflict with the default colors for the breeze icon theme, I don't know why they didn't use

[Colors:Selection]
ForegroundNormal=

Maybe there are other parts of the ui that depend on the same colors and causes readability issues somewhere, so I don't think I can solve this one without sacrificing consistency. Or changing all the icons afected by this manually Maybe it would be worth asking the KDE VDG group what do they think about this but idk.

Please leave this open for now.

[luisbocanegra]

Just an update on this issue, I use the Papirus-Colors icons, they follow the current color scheme and had this same issue.

I patched those icons replacing the css class in some elements and it seems to have worked perfectly.

If someone also uses the Papirus icon theme you can get the patched version if Papirus-Colors from my fork

Install both Papirus icon theme and Papirus-Colors and apply Papirus-Colors in system settings

Probably the same could be achieved patching Breeze icons too