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cullmann.io KDE Applications & Icons

In this rather lengthy post I talk a bit about the current issues with icons for the KDE applications I work on or use. Let’s start with looking at what I mean with KDE applications and what the current state is, up to KDE Frameworks 6.

KDE applications have some issues with their icons outside of Plasma. This post shows the current state and what can be done to improve it.

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cullmann.io Kate & Icons

How it shall look… # Linux & BSDs # Windows # macOS # State on Fedora 40 Workstation & XFCE Spin… # Screenshots taken from the GNOME bugtracker, copies to not stall their GitLab instance.

The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO icon naming spec breaking KDE applications on Fedora 40 Workstation and Co. See the concrete state of the issue in the linked article.

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Kate on all Platforms - 2024
  • It is not just available, both for Windows and macOS we try to get it to a good state and fix bugs. If that slowdown is reproducible, that should be fixed. But to do that, we would need more info, best would be to get some profile data for it.

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  • cullmann.io Kate on all Platforms - 2024

    Unix like systems with X11 or Wayland All Unix like systems with either X11 or Wayland are well supported since ever. Linux with X11 and now Wayland is for a long time the primary system on that Kate work happens. Over the years it was, like most of the KDE applications, ported to various BSD varian...

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    Thanks to the help of our contributors the current state of Kate for the upcoming first Qt & KF 6 release looks very promising. For more information read this post.

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