[Nova Launcher] JoeSyr:
I've stumbled upon some undesirable behaviors relating to setting icons. I currently have two icon packs installed, Moonshine and one called "Holo Icons" by Unseen Vision that seems to have been unpublished from the Play Store. I also have a few icons set from .png files that I've saved locally on the device. I'm also using Nova Prime, in case that's relevant.

From what I can tell, most of this seem to stem from me setting custom names for apps in the app drawer. I've renamed a lot of my apps to better organize them. Here's the oddities in a list:

1)If I set a custom name for an app(in the app drawer, not a homescreen shortcut), this app is no longer automatically updated to a new icon when I set icon packs. This is something that I wish wasn't the case at all; I've renamed a lot of apps in the drawer to better organize/label, but I want these to still update when I change icon packs (which still registers the association because it uses the package name).

2)If I set a custom icon, the same happens. In a way this feels more like a feature though. Especially if I've set an icon from a file, in which case I probably don't want it reverting to whatever an icon pack would set. Still, the current setup is unintuitive and confusing.

3)As a particular case that got me going on all of this, the Moonshine icon pack supports per-day icons for a few calendar apps, which works pretty well as an automatic thing that needs no configuration. I noticed that after the app updated recently this was no longer happening on my calendar icon (for Google Calendar), even after manually setting the icon to the icon pack's default choise. I think it must have been because I had previously changed the icon or the name manually, and that made the setting stick. Ultimately I got it working again by clearing all app data. I'm aware that there's an option in settings just to reset custom icons but it seemed like a good time for a fresh start anyway (and I made a backup first).

4)For a while I was unable to set a custom icon for the Nova Settings drawer entry, it kept reverting to the current icon pack's default for it. After my total-app reset this seems to be fixed, though.

5)This one is more of a definite bug. In the icon chooser screen, under the "Built-in" tab, the first section, "Defaults", has two entries: The currently set icon, and the one that would be chosen automatically by the current applied icon pack. If I scroll up and down on the list, the first one starts flashing between random entries that appear to all come from the "KitKat" section on the same page, as though Nova is mis-reading what the current icon is set to. If I do this rapidly it'll jump between multiple (e.g. "email", "dialer", "clock"), but then it seems to settle on one after a moment (until i re-open the page).

If points 1 and 2 are completely intentional behaviors, I think Nova could use a minor overhaul in terms of how it handles custom drawer entries. Perhaps a list of all installed apps, their drawer icon, drawer label, and whether they'll update automatically with icon pack/theme changes. Currently it seems that the 'reset custom icons" function exists to help the user clean up because this gets messy over time, but it would be nice to have a more direct and intuitive way to interact with this aspect of the app.