I always end up coming back to Kora. Can anyone recommend a good icon theme? (reddthat.com)

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I kind of want a new icon theme to keep things looking fresh and good, but nothing is as good or checks as many boxes as Kora does.

Kora is so good (and importantly complete with no broken icons), that it is so hard to compete with.

My only complaint is that I've been using it for YEARS and just want something fresh.

But every icon pack I try, has some flaw. Either missing icons, lack of good icons, too complicated icons and not easily legible...

I guess this post is in praise of Kora, as well as a desire to find something else.

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[-] somereaduser@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

Some first reaction feedback:

It's good but there are two things taht I don't like.

1.) It uses Breeze system tray icons that I am not a fan of at all; they look very outdated, not fun, boring, and its a smidge hard to get information out of them.

2.) Again in Dolphin, it uses the Breeze icons in the Places tab. I really don't like those minimal icons; there's no fun pop color, while at the same time looking modern (ala Kora).

Just to give you an idea of what I mean by non-perfect icons.

I think the overall culprit in Plasma, and as evidenced here, is that I feel Breeze is a really bad icon theme. And a lot of people use that as a starting point...which leads to unsatisfactory results.

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