Gnome's Adwaita team is breaking icon compatibility

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.

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The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO spec, breaking e.g. KDE apps

cullmann.io /posts/kate-and-icons/

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9mo ago

The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO icon naming spec breaking KDE applications on Fedora 40 Workstation and Co.

cullmann.io /posts/kate-and-icons/

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XFCE users looking around worriedly – can you please not mess with GTK? … please?
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so … um, I’ve been hearing nice things about LXQT lately?
- This is Libadwaita not GTK3
  
  It's GTK4, libadwaita is just their really weird theming stuff, but the UI toolkit is still called GTK, and version 4 of it forces you to use libadwaita. You can't change the theme, because Gnome is actually user-hostile.
  
  You can use a different theme with GTK 4 (not that you would want to)
  
  sigh