Breeze icons look incorrect on login after upgrade to plasma 6

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I use the default breeze icon theme on all user accounts. After upgrading to plasma 6 a while ago I noticed that when logging into any account the icons look different (pic related). This issue is temporarily fixed by setting a different icon theme and then re-selecting breeze after which the icons look as breeze themed icons should look. When I run a ‘zypper dup’ upgrade that also updates plasma the icons also temporarily revert back to their correct images. I want to know what exactly is causing this strange issue, kind of annoying to have to re-select the breeze theme in settings whenever I re-login.

I’ve had this install of tumbleweed since 2022 (on snapshot 20260109 as of the writing of this post) and this issue has been occurring since upgrading to plasma 6.0. It’s a relatively small issue but I’ve been putting if off for too long. This issue doesn’t happen in a KDE tumbleweed VM I spun up. Running kbuildsycoca6 doesn’t work and I haven’t changed anything in KDE menu editor.

[knurpht]

Hi, welcome

As always in such cases: create a new user, logout, login as the new user and see if the issue persists. In case the result

• is YES, there’s an issue with your install
• is NO, the issue is somewhere in your user’s homedir

What you did not say: Is this on X11 or on Wayland?

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Hi, welcome

Thanks, glad to be here.

create a new user, logout, login as the new user and see if the issue persists.

I tried doing that and the issue persists.

Is this on X11 or on Wayland?

I use wayland but the issue persists even after trying out x11

[knurpht]

Mmm, not seeing any icon issues here(, nor on 2 other laptops). TW installed > 2 years ago. Please show your repos: zypper lr -d in pre-formatted text ( the </> in the edit window).

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@knurpht

zypper lr -d

#  | Alias                                  | Name                        | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Keep | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                              | Service
---+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+------+----------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
 1 | brave-browser                          | Brave Browser               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      | -    |   99     | rpm-md | https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/                           | 
 2 | dotnet                                 | Microsoft .NET              | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | -    |   99     | rpm-md | https://packages.microsoft.com/opensuse/15/prod/                                 | 
 3 | editors                                | editors                     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | -    |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/editors/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/          | 
 4 | google-chrome                          | google-chrome               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      | -    |   99     | rpm-md | https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64                             | 
 5 | home_MaxxedSUSE                        | home:MaxxedSUSE             | No      | ----      | ----    | -    |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/MaxxedSUSE/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ | 
 6 | openSUSE-20220915-0                    | openSUSE-20220915-0         | No      | ----      | ----    | -    |   99     | N/A    | hd:/?device=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-_USB_DISK_3.0_070A0BD91C9C5567-0:0-part2         | 
 7 | opensuse-guide.org-openSUSE_Tumbleweed | libdvdcss repository        | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | -    |   90     | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/                              | 
 8 | packman                                | packman                     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | -    |   90     | rpm-md | https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/             | 
 9 | repo-debug                             | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Debug   | No      | ----      | ----    | -    |   99     | N/A    | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/tumbleweed/repo/oss/                          | 
10 | repo-non-oss                           | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | -    |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/                            | 
11 | repo-oss                               | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | -    |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/                                | 
12 | repo-source                            | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Source  | No      | ----      | ----    | -    |   99     | N/A    | http://download.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed/repo/oss/                         | 
13 | repo-update                            | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | -    |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/                                  | 
14 | snappy                                 | snappy                      | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      | -    |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/   | 
15 | vscode                                 | Visual Studio Code          | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | -    |   99     | rpm-md | https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode                                   | 

[knurpht]

I only saw this just now, but what you show are not all Breeze icons. Look at Dolphin f.e.

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Some of the icons look as breeze icons should (kate looks correct) but others like dolphin have the filing cabinet icon even though the icon theme in system settings is set to ‘breeze’. I didn’t make any modifications myself to the default breeze icon theme.

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I managed to resolve the issue by clearing the contents of the ~.local/share/icons/ folders in every user and force reinstalling kf6-breeze-icons.

[knurpht]

If icons are in ~/.local/share/icons this means you added them somehow, sometime. Packages don’t install there.