Hi guys, I’ve hit a strange bug that I thought I could ignore for a bit, but haven’t been able to because some of the main apps I use has been affected and I don’t really know what’s causing it.
I’ve tried to change icon and system themes, but not luck.
I’ve also tried to reinstall qt5-svg and after a restart nothing seemed to change.
Some of my icons are just completely gone on some applications. As you can see in the screenshots below.
KDE team simply removed that heavily modified and non FDO compatible Adwaita icons theme from their settings. Because it’s broken and will cause bugs on non LibAdwaita apps.
Other desktops like Budgie and Cinnamon did the same.
Try to use Breeze icons theme or any compatible one.
I tried reinstalling the adwaita installed packaged in my system. since removing them give dependency break warnings.
-no changes in the missing icons.
I also tried changing with the different icon themes installed on my system such as Tela dark, oxygen, breeze dark, and breeze.
-no changes in the missing icons
Delete the icon cache… 
rm -f ~/.cache/*.kcache
Best is to do this from a tty while completely logged out of Plasma.
Thanks for the reply, I entered into tty2 after a restart,
did the following with no issues:
rm -f ~/.cache/*.kcache
Restarted again, but everything still looks the same. 
I’m not sure if this information would prove helpful.
But prior to this error, and perhaps the cause of it, was a bug that I had where I was unable to load my DE.
Where I failed installing icu (75.1-1) breaks dependency ‘libicui18n.so=74-64’ I had to reinstall it with wget which then let me load back my DE and use my system.
This was the guide I followed I think
hxxps://www.reddit[.]com/r/archlinux/comments/1cydxhs/libicuucso75_icu_package_update_issues/
Do you mean you reinstalled the outdated version? If so then your system is probably broken until you are fully up-to-date.
I was able to manually install it back by following OPs instructions here.
hxxps://www.reddit[.]com/r/archlinux/comments/1cydxhs/libicuucso75_icu_package_update_issues/
I believe I have the correct version now.
This is the version I got:
hxxps://archive.archlinux[.]org/packages/i/icu/icu-75.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
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OP = Original Post or Original Poster, whichever is convenient. In this case the OP is you , which makes no obvious sense.
Sorry, didn’t specify. When I meant I followed OP’s instruction, I meant the OP for the reddit post that I provided the link for.
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Oh wow, that’s a useful tip! Thanks 
Sorry for delayed reply, been sitting in my drafts for a couple of days. A query:
Is this a system upgraded from Plasma5, and if so, did you do this from a TTY as instructed in the Stable Update Announcement thread? If not, I’d expect such unexpected results.
Oh no! I didn’t do that
This issue did happen after the large update in May. I just updated like normal and didn’t think it would break anything.
I did the update in the GUI and not in a tty 
Is there anything you think I can do now to fix it?
I didn’t have timeshift turned on 
I had a read through there and I think that I messed myself up by not following it.
What do you recommend I do now?
So far my ideas are reinstalling my DE?
That might fix any broken things in the background
Switching to an unstable or testing branch, maybe that upgrade can install replacement packages that might fix things?
These are just some ideas that I thought up on recently.
I’d say reinstalling the DE isn’t too bad of an option. It might replace some missing or still-outdated stuff. You should at least keep the programs and settings you have, but definitely do that whilst logged-out of the Desktop Environment, and in a TTY.
I’d considered at one point switching branches but this won’t necessarily clobber the bits which are problematic; some packages might not get updated for a while if there are no changes.
It would be a useful experiment at least.
I would advise properly setting up e.g. Timeshift and doing a backup first, though.
I’d say reinstalling the DE isn’t too bad of an option. It might replace some missing or still-outdated stuff. You should at least keep the programs and settings you have, but definitely do that whilst logged-out of the Desktop Environment, and in a TTY.
That’s a very good point. I’ll need to remember to do it in a tty, after I backup with timeshift.
Separately, I found a workaround for the Inkscape and GIMP problems. I just uninstalled the official repo versions and just got the flatpaks instead. All the icons are there.
Inkscape looks a bit strange but I can ignore it at this point 
Just adding an update here, I did the plasma and kde reinstall in tty2.
Then restarted and loaded back in. Looks the same, all the same annoying graphical issues where they were last time 
Finally!
Launching those graphical programs via terminal directly helped me find out what I needed to reinstall.
I saw a lot of errors pop up in the terminal saying packages with gdk, and pixbuf were being mentioned.
So I logged out, then loaded up the tty2 session again, did a pacman -Qs to find out about which packages are installed on the system. And then did a straight forward pacman -S to reinstall them. rebooting back to my main user session all the missing icons in the programs mentioned are back to normal.
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