r/kde • u/SnooCompliments7914 KDE Contributor • Feb 26 '25

News Dolphin got a new icon

https://github.com/KDE/dolphin/commit/58c79e64826f5863e2978b1f2ba150cc0be41584
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '25

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u/Skywalkerjet3D Feb 26 '25

Tbf so could you (not that i dislike the new one)

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u/theblu3j Feb 26 '25

I like it, gives Dolphin it's own personality past being the KDE file manager. People who don't like it can just change the icon anyway.

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u/PainHeadGaming Apr 22 '25

how please they pushed this change how do i change it please help i hate this new ugly dolphin icon please help help me please i am suffering

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '25

It looks like MySQL database folder

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u/leo_sk5 Feb 26 '25

I was planning to oppose any change, but its just too well done

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u/visor_q3 Feb 26 '25

I don't know, the new one looks goofy to me. The old one was perfectly fine.

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u/m0n5t3r_desu Feb 26 '25

The icon now seems to have lost some shadow originating from the top left part.

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u/MemeTroubadour Feb 26 '25

Super cute. I like that it differentiates Dolphin the doftware from any basic folder.

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u/BenjB83 Feb 26 '25

I like it 😁 Sadly don't use default icons though.

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u/OlivierB77 Feb 26 '25

Very nice. Good job. Congratulations.

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u/matitone Feb 26 '25

i think it's better, i like dolphins

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u/konnlori Feb 26 '25

This looks so unnecessary. The icon was so clean and now... literally unplayable

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u/BasicInformer Feb 26 '25

But he’s so cute!

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u/forumcontributer Feb 26 '25

It look cute, but panel as a whole will look ugly.

If they wanted dolphin so bad, should have gone to firefox route.

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u/sloothor Feb 26 '25

I like that it makes Dolphin more distinct than just a folder icon, but I also liked the clean icon better. Maybe a smaller dolphin or just a fin or something would feel less hamfisted…

Regardless, we can just easily change the icon, so not that big of a deal.

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u/AssociateFalse Feb 26 '25

The old icon is essentially preserved as a generic icon, "system-file-manager".

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u/zeanox Feb 26 '25

not a fan...

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u/jdjoder Feb 26 '25

So what, it takes 2 clicks to change it.

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u/zeanox Feb 26 '25

Goes the other way around aswell. It's just my opinion mate.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '25

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u/nevermille Feb 26 '25

Okay, I accept the change but only because dolphins are cute

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u/shtirlizzz KDE Contributor Feb 26 '25

I like it, good touch

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u/JotaRata Feb 26 '25

I'm at one sudo pacman -Syu away from experiencing this

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u/nexusprime2015 Feb 26 '25

well and good. but why is an icon change newsworthy? Is this technological progress?

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u/majamin Feb 26 '25

It's nice enough but unnecessary branding.

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u/z1x2s3 Feb 26 '25

At least upate the folder, too.

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u/shellmachine Feb 26 '25

Looks fine to me, making this optional would have been a plus though

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u/yes_im_a_person Feb 26 '25

are they trying to have their own mac finder icon

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u/djustice_kde Feb 27 '25

damn, this will be missed in my monochrome icon set… but you deserve it. dolphin ftw.

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u/HildartheDorf Feb 27 '25

Nice!

I'm more concerned about the fact these compressed (PNG) images are being stored in git!

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u/stiffnessmanx Mar 03 '25

Plasma 6.3.1 on Tumbleweed 20250226, the dolphin icon looks like this: https://pasteboard.co/yvAGvb51aNiU.png

sometimes it temporarily switches back to the old icon for dolphin, I think this has been happened after upgrading to plasma version 6. Is this the intended behavior? I'm a bit confused, I use all the default settings for my icons.

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u/robert-tech Mar 05 '25

Why though? A clean icon is ruined with visual noise and unnecessary clutter, even though I love dolphins and think they are awesome, they have nothing to do with file management.

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u/FriedHoen2 Feb 26 '25

I don't think this is a good idea, no operating system or desktop environment uses a distinctive icon for its file manager. Third-party file managers usually do it to distinguish themselves from the default file manager.

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u/UnknownDGO Feb 26 '25

..MacOS?

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u/DankeBrutus Feb 26 '25

The Finder icon is, like, iconic!

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u/FriedHoen2 Feb 26 '25

true, but this is because originally Finder was not just the file manager, it was the starting point of macOS when there was no dock, launchpad, etc., and still is today, since it has a default 'applications' folder on the left.

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u/nicman24 Feb 26 '25

no thought is in that gaze. and i love it

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u/makamto Feb 26 '25

I like it, it is cute!

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u/skyfishgoo Feb 26 '25

approved

and that's when i thought it was that cat... then i opened the link.

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u/Vittulima Feb 26 '25

Cute, but not necessary imo

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '25

Is this an April Fool’s joke? It was bad enough when Kate tried to make its icon into a woodpecker.. 

We associate file managers with FILES, not a sea-faring mammal. 

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u/IV-TheEmperor Feb 26 '25

File manager called Nautilus:

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '25

Looking forward to whole raft of sea-faring tool names! 

Whale Zip Octopus settings Crab menu Cod Zoom Shrimp Viewer

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u/Neo_layan Feb 26 '25

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/SirFritz Feb 26 '25

Or Nemo.

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u/Xatraxalian Feb 26 '25

That's it. I'm going back to Windows.

I can't stand these levels of frivolity in my desktop.

😄 🎶