Blurry systray icons

[jevgenij]

Switched from Ubuntu to Kubuntu 19.04 yesterday, and among overall positive impressions, got one minor but unpleasant drawback.

Icons of skype, slack, and thunderbird are blurred in systray:



Tried to search for explanation and solution, but no luck...

[jevgenij]

Breeze Chameleon icon theme solves the issue for skype and slack, but not for thunderbird:

[jevgenij]

But half of icons in start menu disappeared after icon theme installation:

[Don B. Cilly]

Well, maybe that theme isn't all that good... ;·)

I can't really help, but you can set your own icons for applications by right-clicking on the Application Launcher and choosing Edit Applications.
For each app with a missing icon - or one you want to change - click on the icon for it (top right corner).
Typing kmenuedit will open the app editor too.

[oshunluvr]

Blurriness is usually a resolution issue. Icons are created by the app developer in many cases. If you can find the Icon file, it's probably 22x22 or something like that. I've re-created Icons or downloaded higher res version in the past when I encounter ones that don't scale well. SVG icons are better because scaling is built in.

As far as missing icons, Don is likely spot on. Your theme - and many don't - doesn't have all the icons you want and the developer didn't bother to at least include the defaults in the theme file. Again, you can remedy this yourself or find a better made theme.