@Staudey @alfisya thanks for the info. was certainly curious
@elusian well this is the dangdest part....they were non-repo icons (oxygen-ionized) (my bad) that changed after the update. this is not supposed to happen in a million years, right? how would solus know to update that? anyway in plank the software center icon is now a bunch of tiny boxes out of proportion to the rest. Abiword
may have changed color and other barely memorable stuff.
we're not even at the weird part yet. under budgie "widgets"--which are really folders and theme color I was at repo zukitre dark because I LOVE the light darks. But it was darker. strange. so I went to other "light darks" I love like pocillo and qogir etc and the seemed darker so went to arc-dark this morning since it was the lightest 'light black' I could find. even weirder is I don't remember any of those repo packages getting updated so now I must be at the point in life where I need psychotropics... 🙂.
none of this was enough to deviate my vote of 'just fine, thanks for asking' though--edit: because none of these are solus issues just me I think