Does not prefer icons in ~/.local/share/icons

[Andy de Cleyre]

The desktop standards use local directories to override system directories whenever there are conflicts (or simply missing items in the system directory). For example, identically named launchers in ~/.local/share/applications are preferred over their counterparts in /usr/share/applications.

The same is true for /usr/share/icons and ~/.local/share/icons, but Plank does not appear to account for this, and uses the system level icon (or no themed icon, if a system level one is not present) instead.

My particular cases here are:

/usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/scalable/apps/firefox.svg
should be overridden by
/home/andy/.local/share/icons/Numix-Circle/scalable/apps/firefox.svg

and

/home/andy/.local/share/icons/Numix-Circle/scalable/apps/telegram-desktop.svg
should be used since there is no icon with that name in the system Numix-Circle theme.

Plank 0.9.1
Arch Linux
Plasma Desktop/Kwin

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

While retrieving an icon by icon-name with Gtk.IconTheme plank does not take influence where the icon is loaded from. This is all Gtk+ which set the appropriate search-paths.
Afaik you need to provide a full theme (including "index.theme") rather than just one specific image-file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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