[BUG] Symbolic icons don't change color in qt apps

[Readf0x]

Describe the bug Symbolic icons don't change color in some applications, mainly qt apps. This is because most symbolic icons use element styles to set the color to nord0. To fix, just change the color to currentColor, but don't use classes to change it to nord0 anyways, as this will prevent some applications from changing the icon color.

To Reproduce Set qt icon theme to nordzy and open a qt application

Expected behaviour Icons can change color.

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Desktop I'm using Gnome 42 on Pop!_OS (debian), but this does affect all distributions.

[alvatip]

Thanks for noticing, I will take a look at that

[alvatip]

Hey @Readf0x, I was wondering which theme are you using ? Don't ask me why, that was some years ago, and I was less experienced, but I encountered an issue and I chose not to use currentColor, instead I am changing the color when installing a theme. So symbolic icons in Nordzy are set to Nord0(dark) and symbolic icon in Nordzy-dark are set to Nord6 (light)

PS: Yes, I know that the name are counter intuitive, when I named them I thought Nordzy for overall light theme (=> so dark symbolic icons) and Nordzy-dark for overall dark theme (=> so light symbolic icons) :stuck_out_tongue:

[Readf0x]

I'm using the Nordic theme for my GTK theme. Other than that I'm using qt5 settings to manually change the colors to match the nord theme, since there really aren't that many qt themes online.

I didn't know there was a Nordzy dark, actually... That would've saved me so much time... 🤦

[Readf0x]

Upon further inspection, this affects GTK apps as well.

I would assume that when text is using the selected color, so should symbolic icons. However I'm no expert on GTK, so it's entirely possible I'm wrong.

[alvatip]

Damn! Thanks for reporting it, I will try using currentColor, hoping it solve the issue :stuck_out_tongue:

[alvatip]

I believe I found the fix, I don't think I will have time to do it today nor this weekend, so it will most likely be on Monday

[alvatip]

@Readf0x , I brought some changes to the icons, Here is what I see in kvantum, using Nordic theme, maybe you can confirm that changes in the last commit were indeed successful ? Thanks

Edit: I should mention that I was able to reproduce the issue in kvantum which is why I used it as a reference to make the modification