abondrov added a comment.
In https://phabricator.kde.org/D5093#96405, @broulik wrote: > I have various icons in ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor and .desktop files referencing them just by name and that works fine. Likely KF5 application running from KDE 4 Workspace with icon theme set to XXX in KF5's kdeglobals (Theme=XXX) won't see ~/.local/share/icons/XXX theme. Take a look at KHintsSettings::xdgIconThemePaths() function: https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-integration.git/tree/src/platformtheme/khintssettings.cpp#n167 The only path it takes in account in user's home is ~/.icons REPOSITORY R135 Integration for Qt applications in Plasma REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D5093 To: abondrov, jriddell, broulik Cc: plasma-devel, progwolff, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol
