[lexlambda]

Icon themes modifying the developer-provided icons was always a strange thing to me in many Linux distributions. Even often hard or hidden to disable this behavior.

My workaround already was using Breeze, since it does the least modification compared to other themes available by default. Glad to see it continue in this direction.

[Gualdrapo]

Well, the point of custom icon themes is, you know, customize an icon theme.

That being said, it's expected the default icon theme does little to nothing about customizing a third party icon. When I was involved (briefly) with the KDE VDG back when 5 was about to be launched I proposed a icon style that looked completely different of what Breeze looks right now - maybe something in between of what Oxygen looks like and Breeze looks like. But Jens Reutenberg told me it couldn't go in that direction since they needed to ship certain icons "as-is", like the Firefox one, so it was better to do something that could fit anything so those "special" icons wouldn't look out of place.

Some people like to diss on flat/minimalism styles but for some situations there is a reason they look that way.

[panzi]

It takes me at least 3 times as long to find what I need with these minimalist monochrome icons, though. I always opt to the more colorful ones, if possible.