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UnderscoreX3

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Registered: 2016-03-14

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KDE tray icons are ugly?

I just installed KDE today and I am having a bit of an issue with the tray icons. I switched from Gnome to KDE, but I have also used Unity and XFCE before. The problem is that, the tray icons in KDE are ugly and have these black spots around them (i will post a screenshot below). They are also blurry. I did not have this problem in Unity, Gnome, or XFCE, and I was using the same applications. Here's a screenshot so you can see what I am talking about:

https://gyazo.com/300d551cd3c86792249466970031bba8

Basically as you can see the tray icons do not look good. The icons for pidgin and mullvad both have those thick black edges around them, and I'm not really sure why. I have tried resizing the bottom panel but this didn't do it for me. Does anyone know why this is and how I can fix it? I have also tried switching icon themes, but still this did not fix the problem either.

UnderscoreX3

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Registered: 2016-03-14

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Re: KDE tray icons are ugly?

nobody knows? Damn. If nobody on here knows how to fix this i sure as hell will never figure it out

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: KDE tray icons are ugly?

Looks like crappy xembed tray icons.

Last edited by Scimmia (2016-03-25 05:03:10)

UnderscoreX3

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Registered: 2016-03-14

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Re: KDE tray icons are ugly?

Looks like crappy xembed tray icons.

Any way I could make them better? Is it something I am doing wrong? I did research on this before making this post and found a lot of other people with the same problem. At this point I honestly don't care that they are blurry it's just the black spots around the tray icons that really drives me crazy

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: KDE tray icons are ugly?

Nothing you're doing wrong. Could be an issue with KDE's xembedsniproxy or it could be a problem with upstream's icons. Ideally, upstream would switch to indicators, which is the modern version of xembed.

UnderscoreX3

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Registered: 2016-03-14

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Re: KDE tray icons are ugly?

I guess I will go to forum.kde.org and bitch about it there. Everything I have found so far suggests this is a bug and I can't even imagine why this hasn't been fixed as people seem to have had issues with it for years

slytux

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Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 139

Re: KDE tray icons are ugly?

I changed the Desktop Theme to "Air" which made the bottom panel slightly smaller.  It might have an effect on some icons that look ugly when oversized.