I found a solution. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I've edited my post with the solution.
Seems to not be an option in Thunar
Looks like I have all the required entries, mine looks mostly the same as yours.
Just tested both Nemo and Caja. Problem still persists
Well yes. I've tested several different icon themes, but they all have the same problem
Running debian+swaywm and I'm trying to find a file manager that I like.
What I've have tested so far is using another icon theme.
Edit:
Following this thread fixed it for me. I didn't notice any immediate change, but after reboot, the correct icons appeared. I think this mainly had do to with me not having the xdg-user-dirs-gtk package.
Maybe I phrased it badly in my post. Of course swaywm in itself doesn’t have any animations, but since I don’t have a desktop environment like gnome or kde, I thought people would understand if I said that I use swaywm. Sorry
Damn you're right. I may or may not have been brushing off anything related to gnome, since I thought it wouldn't apply to me... Well that was ignorant of me.
While this doesn't seem to apply for spotify, steam or discord, after rechecking on my laptop with Ubuntu, neither did it there... (so my description is a little off). I guess that's because of the applications not running wayland natively? I actually don't really know though.
I know in Windows there is an option to turn off all animations, and it really did that for EVERYTHING, so I guess I'm after something like that, but there probably isn't such an option.
That’s a very nice cat