Why does the Bluefish Editor (2.2.19) show windows with a Wordpress icon in their titlebars? The icon shown on the taskbar is a blue fish, which is fine. I am presuming that the window manager, kwin, cannot find the icon it expects and has substituted another for it. I am a complete tiro (sorry for that) and do not know where to look. The directory ~/.bluefish has files menudump_2, rcfile_2.0, session-2.0 and snippets, and subdirectories autosave and templates, but I cannot find anything looking relevant in these. But that maybe is down to my ignorance.
If it does - it could be your icon theme.
If I sync bluefish it is the bluefish icon
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It might be something in your .cache directory - you could temporarily re-name (or just remove) that directory and see if the problem changes.
Removing .cache does not change anything. But I have realized that the W icon is not for Wordpress but for Wayland. So It maybe that I have run into a more general problem.
I don’t have this problem myself, but I see some previous discussions about something similar: Icons not being displayed appropriately in KDE plasma - #4 by Archie1 - Plasma - EndeavourOS
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Having read around a bit, I realize that my problem is an old one. Applications originally written to work with X11, not modified properly for use with Wayland. My laptop is a Pinebook Pro. Developers must have a terrible time checking all the possible platforms and all the possible software environments. I have been testing a variety of text editors to test which are free of the problem and I have reverted to KWrite. Some of them had menus that initially showed skewed, another symptom of the same problem.
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Indeed, the issue has existed for a few years (that I am aware of), and although there were solutions offered among the lore, most responses equated to a shrug of the shoulders, such as here:
For example, this thread suggests the problem lies in the .desktop file for the application and/or it’s path naming.
While some background information describing the reasoning; how/why this can occur; can be found here:
Related info that might be of interest: