how do I get my kde task bar icons to look like normal again?

[prado]

I used these commands
sudo apt install breeze-icon-theme
sudo apt install breeze
sudo apt install qt5ct

and my kde task bar icons looks something like this

dolphin icons have changed too

My problems started after changing theme in setting. I ran the the commands at top of this post first, then changed theme, then my icons task bar theme changed. It was dark but the icons didn’t look this way.

Is there a way to get icons and theme back to how everything looked before when I first installed iso (default)

uname -r
6.9.7-amd64

PRETTY_NAME=“Parrot Security 6.2 (lorikeet)”
NAME=“Parrot Security”
VERSION_ID=“6.2”
VERSION=“6.2 (lorikeet)”
VERSION_CODENAME=lory

[Milesy (Richard)]

Have you tried removing the breeze theme, that may revert things back. Also check if the icons were installed to the icons folder in your home directory.

Its been a while since I have used KDE so can’t be more help.

[Fred_Sheehan (Fred)]

I don’t know about KDE but every other Parrot desktop has been themed for Parrot, so maybe thats your issue, so you could try running the Parrot KDE desktop installer again;

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo install --reinstall parrot-desktop-kde

One of the best things about a Linux distro of course, is you have many choices of themes and icons etc;

Browse Latest | https://store.kde.org/browse/

[prado]

@Milesy

Have you tried removing the breeze theme, that may revert things back. Also check if the icons were installed to the icons folder in your home directory.

Should I be using
sudo apt-get remove breeze-icon-theme
or

sudo apt-get -y autoremove breeze-icon-theme

or

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge breeze-icon-theme

What will I end up with if I do one of the above, what if there is no theme left?

[prado]

Do I need to unistall breeze them first before I do this?

@Fred_Sheehan

sudo install --reinstall parrot-desktop-kde

Can I still keep my desktop wallpaper if I only pick a new icon theme from
https://store.kde.org?

[Milesy (Richard)]

I think any of those would work. If you omit the “-y” you will be able to see what is going to be removed before committing.

I would just use

sudo apt-get purge <package>

That should remove everything including the config files.

You should be left with the default theme as you are only removing the additional theme you installed.

[Masmer (Masmer Snerd)]

parrot-desktop-kde hasn’t worked for me for several builds now. Currently it’s “broken”. I stick with Mate for Parrot.

[underwing (Esme Trout)]

Hi Prado

My kde is slightly different, for example, mine had Breeze pre-installed, so I hope this works:

Right-click the desktop, it opens a selection screen for wallpapers & things. Mouse on a wallpaper, a folder icon appears, saying ‘Open containing folder’.
Choose that, it shows you the .jpg files of the wallpaper.

So you can save any that you are afraid to lose if you uninstall things, & put them back with the button ‘Add image’ in the same dialog box

[underwing (Esme Trout)]

P.s. Yes, it ought not to affect your wallpaper if the thing you change is the icons: I have icons, wallpaper, window colours, & a Plasma theme, that didn’t come with my main theme

[prado]

I am fairly sure I have kde as my desktop because it does not look like yours, but I am wondering why synaptic manager has unmarked parrot-desktop-kde.

@Masmer

parrot-desktop-kde hasn’t worked for me for several builds now. Currently it’s “broken”. I stick with Mate for Parrot.

How common is this? Is it solvable?

[Fred_Sheehan (Fred)]

Yes, if you choose only a new icon theme from store.kde it will only change the icons.

You can enable the synaptic apps you want, and try them, but its probably been disabled because, as masmer suggested, and you have found, it may be broken…

In which case you would just have to install the ‘proper’ KDE environment and would probably lose any Parrot OS specific styling that came with the Parrot version.

[prado]

@Fred_Sheehan

You can enable the synaptic apps you want, and try them, but its probably been disabled because, as masmer suggested, and you have found, it may be broken…

In which case you would just have to install the ‘proper’ KDE environment and would probably lose any Parrot OS specific styling that came with the Parrot version.

If it’s disabled then why does terminal say I have KDE already?

echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
KDE

Which would mean I don’t need to install a kde environment if I have one already according to terminal?

If parrot-desktop-kde was marked green then it would mean that I had kde installed? Synaptic tells a different story to terminal? One is telling me I have kde the other says I don’t?

[Fred_Sheehan (Fred)]

If you are missing icons or some part of the Parrot themed KDE desktop environment, then it can sometimes ‘fix’ this by reinstalling that very package. not being ticked, doesn’t mean disabled, just means ‘not-installed’ as far as synaptic is concerned, I know synaptic does use package management, but I’m not sure if it keeps its own files locations (rarely have I ever used it, I prefer the terminal to a GUI app)

from my understanding synaptic uses pkg direct, rather than apt which is a terminal hook into pkg so they may keep info in different places, hence differing opinions I’d assume.