Kubuntu 16.10 is out!

[Stephen Morris]

On 08/11/16 08:12, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 07/11/16 08:15, Xen wrote:
>> Stephen Morris schreef op 06-11-2016 22:05:
>>
>>> I've applied the Oxygen icon theme which changes the icon theme when
>>> selecting 'Leave' to the coloured icons, but it does not change the
>>> row of icons at the bottom of the launcher (the row that contains
>>> 'Leave', 'Application' etc), is it not possible to change these? I
>>> have also found that Fedora is exactly the same with the oxygen theme.
>>
>> Apparently there is only a limited set of themes that will apply the 
>> Oxygen icon set but this has been so since 15.04. However perhaps it 
>> is possible to go into the theme settings itself and explicitly 
>> select the Oxygen icons for the various things, I don't know. It 
>> might be that they just don't get selected. But this has been an 
>> issue since July of 2015, yeah.
>>
> Under 16.04 LTS, which was an upgraded to from the previous version of 
> Ubuntu (I don't remember which version it was exactly) etc, the reboot 
> options displayed when pressing 'Leave' on the launcher botton row had 
> the same coloured icons that are being displayed now following 
> Valeria's suggestion to use the Oxygen icon set, but that icon set has 
> not changed the row of icons on the bottom of the launcher in 16.10 to 
> the same set of coloured icons that were displayed under 16.04. I am 
> using the Breeze application theme with the Oxygen icon set. As I 
> mentioned before I am seeing the same symptoms under Fedora 24, and 
> switching to the Oxygen application theme with the Oxygen icons set 
> does not rectify the situation, I will try this combination under 
> Ubuntu next time I'm on there but I am assuming the outcome will be 
> the same.
I have tried the Oxygen theme and there is no change to the icons along 
the bottom of the launcher. Is it just not possible to change them any more?

regards,
Steve

> Does this mean that upstream has changed things in the version of 
> Plasma that is being used in 16.10 (and presumably Fedora) so that the 
> changes I'm looking for to use are no longer possible?
> I couldn't upgrade from 16.04 which had the changes I'm looking for to 
> 16.10, as the upgrade destroyed my Ubuntu system, so I had to 
> reinstall 16.04 from scratch, which only installed unity, upgrade to 
> 16.10, and progressively add Gnome and Plasma onto that to get a 
> working system back again.
>
> regards,
> Steve
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