[verandaguy]

I'm not a KDE user, but reading the article, it looks like theme-specific colourful icons for third-party apps will just be falling back to whatever icons originally shipped with the app.

You'll still have colourful icons, and hopefully, in most cases, they'll still be easily recognizable.

[panzi]

Yes, thank you. I somehow read it the wrong way around at first. facepalm