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Brother Root

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Skype 4.3.* tray icon too big

I will start with the fact that I am using Archlinux and Xfce, but the situation is the same on all desktop enviroments and distributions offering Skype 4.3.*.

What I have noticed is if I decrease the icon size, at some point it starts to look normal, but other icons are barely visible (because of the icon size selected) then.

Does anyone have any ideas how could one make that icon look normal (as it was before 4.3.* came out)?

P.S. I have considered reverting back to 2.*, but that'd mean I need to downgrade quite a few other packages (see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/skype2/ for more information), therefore it is not a solution.

Last edited by Brother Root (2014-11-19 17:30:48)

drasticraft

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Re: Skype 4.3.* tray icon too big

It looks fine to me. But if you really wanted to change it you could find the image file Skype is loading and resize it using GIMP.

Last edited by drasticraft (2014-11-22 00:35:43)

Brother Root

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Re: Skype 4.3.* tray icon too big

That icon is hard-coded in the binary.

brebs

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Re: Skype 4.3.* tray icon too big

What? Have you tried editing these:

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/skype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/skype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/skype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/skype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/skype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/skype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/skype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/skype.png

Brother Root

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Re: Skype 4.3.* tray icon too big

Those are not tray icons, therefore I do not see any point in editing them.

brebs

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Re: Skype 4.3.* tray icon too big

Oops

Maybe skype-wrapper.

Brother Root

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Re: Skype 4.3.* tray icon too big

Oops

Better than nothing.

Maybe skype-wrapper.

No effect.

Brother Root

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Re: Skype 4.3.* tray icon too big

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1482950

Why's tint2 resizing that icon and other panels don't?

brebs

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Re: Skype 4.3.* tray icon too big

I expect it's because resizing such a small image will usually result in an ugly image.

Skype's image is such an ugly blob to begin with, that ya get away with it