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ShadowKyogre

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Registered: 2008-12-19

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Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

^That occured when I upgraded from 2.6.2-2 to 2.6.2-3. O___o kinda odd how that big blob of white just popped up.

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Szelek

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From: Warsaw

Registered: 2008-09-03

Posts: 86

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

I have similar problem. Pidgin, Liferea and Mail-Notification icons are buggy after update to gnome 2.28

resadent

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Registered: 2008-05-17

Posts: 35

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

I have the same problem with gajim after the update. I have also lost some icons from the menu.

EDIT: firefox has also lost many icons in its menus O_o

Last edited by resadent (2009-10-13 12:28:43)

wonder

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Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

try in a new user where the configs are cleaned.

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sluo

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Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 7

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

Resolved the menu icon issue with Appearance  -> Show icons in menus. Seems to be disabled by default.

resadent

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Registered: 2008-05-17

Posts: 35

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

Resolved the menu icon issue with Appearance  -> Show icons in menus. Seems to be disabled by default.

Thanks, it solved the problem .

Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

But this doesn't solve the problem with the grey boxes around the tray icons (and I like the new iconless default).

Szelek

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From: Warsaw

Registered: 2008-09-03

Posts: 86

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

But this doesn't solve the problem with the grey boxes around the tray icons (and I like the new iconless default).

yep

Crazycheese

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From: DE

Registered: 2009-08-13

Posts: 6

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

Hey!

I have same trouble, after recent GNOME 2.28 update, Im experiencing following...

From top to bottom:

<systray area>
gnome mplayer - ok
pidgin(extra) - bad background
transmission - ok
claws-mail-nopalm(aur) - bad background,underscaled
quodlibet(extra) - bad background,underscaled
</systrayarea>

language selector, volumecontrols, sysmonitors

My panel is vertical, its 16:9 screen, 42 points width. Gnome 2.28, arch-current, using proprietary nvidia driver. Python & pygtk installed(tried reinstalling).

It seems that all three programs (pidgin,claws-mail-nopalm,quodlibet) use some component for displaying icon in the tray.
This component paints the background with theme color, completely ignoring the transparency.

Or it is panel-systray bug, because it does not replace the default background icon color with transparency

The gallery:
Bar position does not affect it :

Lets change curr theme to some complete theme(bamboo-zen) BINGO!:

Lets add transparency on panel, BINGO2!:

Can someone suggest how to pinpoint which component is doing crap?

Last edited by Crazycheese (2009-10-14 11:45:25)

Crazycheese

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From: DE

Registered: 2009-08-13

Posts: 6

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

Forgot to mention: Some icons on the panel still have ridiculous size..

Malakin

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From: Chile

Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 36

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

I have the exact same problem than the first poster. It looks like the background is not transparent (it's grey) and the icon is not scaled down, so it doesn't fit. Only the top left corner of the icon bubble is shown, resulting in something that looks like a white box.

Last edited by Malakin (2009-10-14 13:10:02)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

The same happens with stalonetray - icons started to randomly change size after the update. So maybe gnome-panel is not directly responsible for this?

For stalonetray, this is fixed by

ignore_icon_resize true

EDIT: not fixed. makes stalonetray hang on (auto)starting with X. If I restart stalonetray after boot, all icons behave like they should also without above option. Weird.

Last edited by hokasch (2009-10-14 13:45:45)

Malakin

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From: Chile

Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 36

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

I'm using KDE. So I guess it's not a Gnome issue.

cywhale

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Registered: 2008-03-10

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

Same problem here, Pidgin and Liferea notification icons have some really ugly light grey background (used to use dark (gnome-)panel, switched to this "light grey" for now until there is a solution...).

Last edited by cywhale (2009-10-16 18:10:45)

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R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

I've been seeing what may be a related problem, I'm using xfce and since maybe a week ago some thing like this started happening

If I switch to any of the tty* and change back to X then it displays properly.

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PhotonX

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

Same here with Pidgin since the last update. The icon size is ok, but it has a white background. Using Gnome.

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Venator85

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-10-18

Posts: 62

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

I opened a bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16726

PhotonX

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

It seems to be a bug in Gnome itself , not in its Arch package since Ubuntu Karmic Beta seems to have the same bug.

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Venator85

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-10-18

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

@PhotonX:
Actually, on Ubuntu Karmic updated 5 minutes ago and the Shiki Colors theme I don't have this issue.

PhotonX

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From: Munich

Registered: 2008-08-10

Posts: 602

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

Oh, then I'm not up to date (just have read a blog about this bug on Karmic Beta). So I believe the bug has been fixed upstream and will be gone after an update of the Gnome package(s).

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Squall90

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 26

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

It seems to be a bug in Gnome itself , not in its Arch package since Ubuntu Karmic Beta seems to have the same bug.

Why do you think it's a gnome bug? Some guys (including me) have this problem under KDE4. It might be a bug of GTK I think.

Malakin

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From: Chile

Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 36

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

I found out that the icon is scaled correctly if I close Pidgin and start it again. This is under KDE. The grey background is still there though.

ktf

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 5

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

Has anyone gotten this fixed yet?

decay_of_mind

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Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 37

Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

No, but experiment shows, that this is theme problem. My girlfriend uses Murine (with black panel) instead of mine Shiki and has right black background.

iphitus

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Re: Pidgin systray icon looks funny after upgrade

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2629