Bad folder icon on x11 plasma

[visualDust]

Hi. It's of great pleasure to have a beautiful icon pack with your excellent design. I installed kora by clicking on the "get new icons" button in system settings:

figure: how do I install

However, the problem was encountered while applying kora on my laptop:

figure: what it looks like after applying

The icon changed to normal folder icons when I clicked on the "apply" button and immediately changed to icons above within 0.5 seconds. The screenshot shows what it looks like after applying kora, and as you can see, folder icons were replaced wrongly.

In the folder properties window, it says the icon was not set.

figure: properties of a random folder

*Since it is questionable that idk if it is a plasma side error, but other icon packages work fine on my computer, so I tend to issue them here.**

System specifics:

                   -`                    visualdust@visualdust-archer 
                  .o+`                   ---------------------------- 
                 `ooo/                   OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
                `+oooo:                  Host: KLVC-WXX9 M1050 
               `+oooooo:                 Kernel: 6.5.5-arch1-1 
               -+oooooo+:                Uptime: 5 mins 
             `/:-:++oooo+:               Packages: 1985 (pacman) 
            `/++++/+++++++:              Shell: fish 3.6.1 
           `/++++++++++++++:             Resolution: 2160x1440 
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           DE: Plasma 5.27.8 
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          WM: KWin 
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         WM Theme: Utterly-Round-Dark-Solid 
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Theme: [Plasma], WhiteSur-Dark-solid [GTK2/3] 
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       Icons: kora [Plasma], kora [GTK2/3] 
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       Terminal: yakuake 
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     CPU: Intel i7-10510U (8) @ 4.900GHz 
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:    GPU: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] 
 `++:.                           `-/+/   GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX250 
 .`                                 `/   Memory: 3424MiB / 15733MiB 

KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Kernel Version: 6.5.5-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

What I've tried:

• logout and re-login
• reboot
• run the script called "create-new-icon-theme.cache.sh" in the project folder
• doing full system updates
• cry

Badnews, these are nice tries but none of them work. Sorry for the trouble, but I like this icon pack, so I would like to find out what is happening.

[visualDust]

Plus, my xdpyinfo:

screen #0:
  dimensions:    2160x1440 pixels (571x381 millimeters)
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch

I've also acknowledged that kora does not work on another 27' 2560x1440 monitor as well.

[visualDust]

I'm not sure whether there are valid icons for folders of all types, since there are less files about "folder" in kora than those of other icon packs.

figure: .svg files with names contain 'folder', in kora (left) and in a random icon pack on my laptop (right)

I'm not an expert on it, maybe plasma or dolphin are reading specific icon names for folders. I'm just guessing.

As I mentioned before:

The icon changed to normal folder icons when I clicked on the "apply" button and immediately changed to icons above within 0.5 seconds.

Here's a screen recording of the phenomenon that might help to explain my bad English expressions:

https://github.com/bikass/kora/assets/33346934/03003d94-d8c7-4f43-8582-aac643c11122

[bikass]

Ok, I will look in to it. But can you try downloading and extracting icon pack using terminal not gui?

[visualDust]

Ok, I will look in to it. But can you try downloading and extracting icon pack using terminal not gui?

Great to hear your response. I tried to download the icon pack again from the terminal via yay and git.

install from yay:

1. run the following command:

   yay -S kora-icon-theme #https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kora-icon-theme

2. reapply kora

I notice that the installation procedure says:

Optional dependencies for kora-icon-theme
    hicolor-icon-theme: fallback Freedesktop.org Hicolor icon theme [installed]
    breeze-icons: fallback Breeze icon theme for Plasma Desktop [installed]
    adwaita-icon-theme: fallback Adwaita icon theme for Gnome Desktop [installed]

and after applying kora, some of the icons fallback to Breeze:

Moreover, folders are still not working:

install from git and manual extraction:

1. remove kora from gui
2. run the following command:

   cd /home/visualdust/.local/share/icons/
   git clone https://github.com/bikass/kora.git
   mv ./kora ./kora_repo
   mv ./kora_repo/kora ./
   mv ./kora-light ./
   mv ./kora-light-panel ./
   mv ./kora-pgrey ./

3. reapply kora

Things are not becoming better, but even worse:

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Well, in conclusion, installing from gui still offers better worse experiences than installing from terminal (laugh)

Dont push yourself to fix this if the problem is complex enough to break the arrangement of your time. I can still use other icon packs before the bugs are fixed.

[bikass]

:) thanks for your effort. But can you can you do very simple thing: just download zip from here, unzip it using terminal and place manually to icons folder. I noticed that in plasma if you extract archive using right click and extract here - it doesn't extract properly.

So I installed KDE neon in VM and looks fine for me:

[visualDust]

Oh hi, nice to see your response again. I was taking exams as well as fighting against other scholar things some days ago, so I didn't see your comment until now. I will try to extract a zip file into the icon folder, since you cannot reproduce my issues, I think it's not Kora's problem. Therefore, I would close this issue. If I run into other snags, I will check for other reasons. I will report any progress if it is possibly helpful for others who also encounter this issue as well.

[visualDust]

Guys I solved the problem by following steps mentioned in a stackexchange post: KDE Dolphin stopped using folder icon for regular folders

The problem comes out after several recent updates on plasma things, maybe there are conflicts between configurations from different versions or some other issue. Anyway, it works now. idk whether it's a workaround or a final solution. I didn't change the default icon of folders in the past, so I'm not actually sure about the reason.