Strange icon under Fedora 25 KDE

[Mike446]

Hi,

Under Fedora 21 and VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.36_114008_fedora18-1.x86_64.rpm I have nice KDE icon.

Now I'm trying to recreate look and feen under Fedora 25. Instead of "blue box" I'm getting black square with green dots.

Screenshoots attached

Regards, Mike

[Mike446]

Ugly icon.

[Mike446]

Nice icon.

[Frank Mehnert]

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 16.04 / KDE. In my case the reason for the ugly icon is the package app-install-data which installs /usr/share/app-install/icons/virtualbox.png. Apparently this icon is used instead of the icons installed by the VirtualBox-5.1 package to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/{16x16,20x20,32x32,40x40,48x48,64x64,128x128}/virtualbox.png.

Removing or renaming /usr/share/app-install/icons/virtualbox.png should work but is only a hack. I would appreciate if someone could come up with a better solution how to make KDE prefer the appropriate virtualbox.png icon from VirtualBox-5.1.

[dhekir]

Update: on Fedora 26, the issue is still there, particularly if using the Breeze theme. The "ugly icons" are SVG files:

/usr/share/icons/breeze/apps/48/virtualbox.svg /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/apps/48/virtualbox.svg

There is a "traditional" SVG icon on:

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/virtualbox.svg

So it might be easier to simply replace the other ones with that, if you can erase them.

[Frank Mehnert]

No, our installer cannot just replace or remove files provided by other packages. There must be a better way to override the icon.

[martonmiklos]

Here is the history of this icon in the KDE's git: ​https://cgit.kde.org/breeze-icons.git/log/icons/apps/48/virtualbox.svg

It might make some sense to ask from the author why did he replaced the original icon.

[martonmiklos]

I have opened a ticket at the KDE's Breeze project: ​https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381169

Vote there if you would like to change it upstreamly :)