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## No glyphs
-Every symbol on this bar is a real icon from `Material-Black-Plum-Suru`, the
-theme GTK already uses. Icons keep their own colours, matching every other
-application on the desktop.
+Every symbol on this bar is a real icon from the desktop's icon theme, read
+from gsettings, so the bar follows a theme switch instead of naming one theme
+forever. Icons keep their own colours, matching every other application on the
+desktop.
waybar offers three ways to draw one, and this bar uses all three because no
single one covers everything:
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### Why the icons do not follow the accent
-2466 of the 5169 panel icons in `Material-Black-Plum-Suru` carry a hardcoded
-gradient and are not recolourable. That is intended here: icons match the rest
-of the desktop rather than the bar.
+2466 of the 5169 panel icons in `Material-Black-Plum-Suru`, the theme this
+desktop runs, carry a hardcoded gradient and are not recolourable. That is
+intended here: icons match the rest of the desktop rather than the bar.
The icons this repo ships are the exception, because the icon theme has none
of them. `icons/slackware.svg` (Simple Icons, CC0) is single-path monochrome,