SMPlayer Support Forum

KDE for some incomprehensible reason replaces the nice SMPlayer icon with some monstrosity, and without my consent. See:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351840

Can we do something about this? Maybe changing the name of the icon in the next version of SMPlayer might help. I don't know what the heck is wrong with the KDE people, but they can't just replace well-known icons with some unrelated ones, just because they think "it looks better." It doesn't. And even if it did, you don't just go ahead and replace it. The icon is part of the application's identity, and recognizable by people. You don't mess with it.

Is this the new icon?
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/w ... player.svg

Indeed it's ugly. But well I guess they try to use icons that fit with the rest of theme (the icon for VLC is also very ugly).

Isn't it possible to change the KDE theme (or uninstall it)?

(I don't use KDE).

I can rename the icon but I think the distros' maintainers would probably revert the change anyway.

It's too bad that they force to use their icons and don't provide a way to get the original icons.

KDE 5 doesn't let you use any icon theme other than Breeze? That seems very odd, not like KDE 4 at all.